petro-dictator

plural petro-dictators

1. The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.

   By any reasonable standard it is a far better deal to send money to America's farmers than to various petro-dictators.

   2008, Gal Luft, Breaking Oil's Monopoly in the Transportation Sector

   2 more examples

   […] ignore the warnings while America's career politicians coddled and sun-bathed with their corrupt corporate campaign donors and the petro-dictators and monarchs[…]

   2005, Peter De Krassel, Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder

   The U.S., the U.K. and others could point usefully to their own sometimes ruinous experiences with various African petro-dictators and diamond despots, in that not-so-distant past before we discovered our new-found attention to African democracy.

   2009, Ernest J. Wilson, China's Influence In Africa