Zappo sees something special in SOME dictators:Following a "working meeting" with Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to kick off a three-day visit, Obiang Nguema responded to his host's demand for "important gestures" by offering to release political prisoners, Spanish government sources said.
Equatorial Guinea is led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who deposed his own uncle in a violent coup d'état in 1979, using 600 mercenaries sent by Morrocan King Hassan II.
Political parties and human rights associations had earlier joined exiled regime opponents to blast the red-carpet welcome for Obiang Nguema, whose tiny country is Africa's third-biggest oil producer after Nigeria and Angola following the discovery of large offshore oil deposits in the early 1990s.
A funny thing for a man who’s building a ”racist apartheid wall of humiliation” to do.The Fuse is Lit! (No Pasaran!)
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Thursday, November 16, 2006
It’s All About Oil (Part 127)
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