No one wants a maximum leader who is also a friendly sprite.
Why would this worry Cuba's maximum leader?
In fact, that kind of direct democracy is usually a device to transfer real power to a maximum leader.
Its hallmarks were an iron hand, military discipline, and total control wielded by a maximum leader, the president.
The agency claimed that flowers spontaneously bloomed in October when party conferences voted to name him maximum leader.
He is no longer the maximum leader in Panama.
Cubans have a way of stroking an imaginary beard to refer to their maximum leader.
But perhaps we do have a certain resistance to the notion that in dangerous times we must turn ourselves over to a maximum leader.
Amazingly, the maximum leader can now be counted one of the suits.
If this place were in Central America or Africa, Barry would have proclaimed himself "maximum leader" or "president for life."