Salah Jadid
Authoritarian leaders classified by political scientists as strongmen include Juan Domingo Perón (Argentina), Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China), Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China), Fidel Castro (Cuba), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Ioannis Metaxas (Greece), Ayub Khan (Pakistan), Siad Barre (Somalia), Salah Jadid (Syria), Hafez al-Assad (Syria), and Idi Amin (Uganda), as well as Hun Sen (Cambodia), Suharto (Indonesia), Indira Gandhi (India) and both Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega of Panama.