Maximum Leader

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The title of "Maximum Leader" (in Spanish, Líder Máximo) has been used by, or to describe, a number of politicians, including, but not limited to:

• Fidel Castro
• Manuel Noriega - an official title given to him in 1989 by Panama's National Assembly
• Muammar al-Qaddafi
• Ralph 'Sonny' Barger - the given title of the president of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club as noted in Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

Where the term is not used by the individual in question, the usage is usually derogatory, implying that they are dictatorial.

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