Irish Examiner view: Public vote names Mexican president as the world's worst tyrant

Obrador had plenty of competition in the poll from the leaders of Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran among others

Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was voted as the world's top tyrant in an Index on Censorship poll. File picture: Marco Ugarte/AP

Unfortunately for humankind, the list of tyrants who exercise power does not show any sign of diminishing. 

Ivan the Terrible, Pol Pot, Vlad the Impaler, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Leopold II, and countless others of their ilk; there is no sign of falling short of future candidates for enlistment.