Great.
How about Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who'se country is shock full of natural resources. His family seems to be the only one who see a profit for it.
Talk to us about his uncle's rule too while you at it. He was worse.
Thanks for this, this is rather easy, too easy..........
Background
Colonial rule: AD 1472-1968
A large island off the Guinea coast (the site today of Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea) becomes known in history as Fernando Po - because it is first reached, in about 1472, by the Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó. The island and the neighbouring coast are mainly visited by Portuguese traders, giving Portugal certain rights in the area (rights recognized at any rate by Catholic Europe, since the pope has granted Africa to Portugal in the treaty of Tordesillas).
In 1778 Portugal assigns these rights to Spain. The intention is to give Spain a foothold in Africa from which to conduct her own slave trade. In return Spain recognizes Portugal's rights in the interior of Brazil, far to the west of the Tordesillas line.
The Spanish, daunted by yellow fever, make little use of this new opportunity in Africa. In the first half of the 19th century they lease harbours in Fernando Po to the British (for their campaign to suppress the slave trade). Finally, from the 1850s, they begin to establish a Spanish presence in their African colony. Minor explorations are made inland from the coast. From 1879 Fernando Po is used as a penal settlement for troublemakers deported from Cuba.
When the scramble for Africa begins, in the 1880s, Spanish activity in this part of Africa is feeble compared to that of immediate neighbours - Germany to the north in Cameroon, France to the south in Gabon. Spanish Guinea wins recognition as a colony, but it is a decidedly pinched area.
Spanish colonial interest centres at first on the healthy and fertile Fernando Po (with its cocoa and coffee plantations), but after decades of neglect the mainland also begins to receive some attention in the 1930s.
In 1968 the Spanish government proposes a constitution for an independent republic. Within months, before the end of the year, this constitution is approved in a plebiscite. Parliamentary elections are held.
Independence is proclaimed.
Independence: from AD 1968
The first president is Francisco Macías Nguema, who soon makes it clear that he intends his rule to be absolute, long-lasting and unforgettable. In 1972 he introduces a new constitution, naming himself president for life. In 1973 he grants himself absolute power, takes control of press and radio, prevents his people from travelling abroad, and - to emphasize the drift of his argument - gives Fernando Po a new name, Macías Nguema.
A reign of terror follows, bringing international protests, until in 1979 Macías is toppled in a military coup led by his nephew, the defence minister Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Obiang declared that the new government would make a fresh start from the repressive measures taken by Macías' administration.
He inherited a country with an empty treasury and a population that had dropped to a third of its 1968 level, with about 50% of the former 1.2 million inhabitants having moved either to Spain or to neighboring African countries, or being murdered during the dictatorship of Obiang's predecessor. He formally assumed the presidency in October 1979.[citation needed]
A new constitution was adopted in 1982; at the same time, Obiang was elected to a seven-year term as president. He was reelected in 1989 as the only candidate. After other parties were permitted to organize, he was reelected in 1996 and 2002 in elections condemned as fraudulent by international observers
In 2003, Obiang told his citizenry that he felt compelled to take full control of the national treasury in order to prevent civil servants from being tempted to engage in corrupt practices. To avoid this corruption,
Obiang deposited more than half a billion dollars into accounts controlled by Obiang and his family at Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C., leading a U.S. federal court to fine the bank $16 million
Analysis:
Note worthy dates & numbers:
1472-1968: 20 years before Columbus came to the Americas, Portugal & Spain fucked it up until 1968, the year MLK Jr died (RIP)
1968 Spain creates a constitution and oversees "election", electing Macias Nguema
1979 his cousin, Obiang Nguema "overthrows" the regime and become President after "election". White House "restores" relations cut in 1976
1982: New constitution
1996 & 2002 Re-elected. 1996 Mobil has been drilling and oil production is at 100 000 barrels a day.
Jul 21, 1999 - Article
US Oil Firms Entwined In
Equatorial Guinea Deals
Jul 26, 2000 - POLITICS-
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: NEW OIL FIND GETS
US ATTENTION
2001
The Bush Administration's national energy policy, released last May, predicted that West Africa would become "one of the fastest-growing sources of oil and gas for the American market." The year before, Paul Michael Wihbey of
Washington's Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies described West Africa as "an area of vital US interest" in testimony before Congress. He proposed the creation of a new South Atlantic Military Command that would "permit the US Navy and armed forces
to more easily project power to defend American interests and allies in West Africa."
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84559900.html
January 25, 2002, the
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies,
a Jerusalem-based think tank, sponsored a forum on
“African Oil: A Priority for U.S. National Security and African Development” at the University Club in Washington, DC
September 20, 2002
MALABO,
Equatorial Guinea (AP) _ In the run-up to a possible U.S.- led offensive on Iraq, U.S. oil companies and strategic planners have their sights on another gulf _ West Africa's Gulf of
Guinea, a booming backwater surpassing Saudi Arabia in oil exports to the United States.
Giant U.S. oil rigs and tankers offshore, and American oil roustabouts sporting coveralls and the flat drawls of Oklahoma and Texas onshore, are vanguards of a U.S.-led oil boom in the region.
It's one the United States is acknowledging as a strategic interest to be safeguarded militarily.
"It's like the Persian Gulf in the 1960s," said Paul Michael Wihbey
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-67581083.html
2003 he transferred $500 million to Riggs Bank in Washington DC
01-26-2005 Earlier this month in a South African court,
Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British prime minister, admitted to playing a role in a failed mercenary plot last year to overthrow the government of
Equatorial Guinea. This was the first time many people had even heard of that West African nation, but
it has a long history with American oil companies, which helped bankroll that company's long-sitting dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-104737512.html
07 August 2006
Prospective Envoy Urges Closer U.S. Ties with Equatorial Guinea
U.S Ambassador-designate Johnson testifies before a Senate committee
He also told senators that the Bush administration believes it is important to have an ambassadorial presence in Equatorial Guinea:
The country is the site of more than $10 billion of U.S. foreign direct investment
In addition, he said, U.S. investment in Equatorial Guinea is concentrated in an industry that is of critical interest -- America's energy security.
"Nearly all of this [energy-related] investment has taken place within the past decade, and it continues to increase," Johnson said.With America importing over a third of its energy needs in 2006 [66 percent of its petroleum], the stability and reliability of a source for raw materials equivalent to more than 350,000 barrels of oil per day from Equatorial Guinea is significantly relevant to our energy security and economic well-being, he said.
In closing, Johnson said, "Let me be clear - in conducting this dialogue, we would like the government and people of Equatorial Guinea to know that the United States wishes only the very best for them. We would like Equatorial Guinea to be a friendly, democratic, prosperous, secure, and peaceful society." 
04-28-2006 Bush courts allies rich in oil, poor in democracy -- President looks for energy suppliers outside Persian Gulf.
Searching for energy supplies and allies against Iran, the Bush administration is reaching out to leaders who rule countries that are rich in oil and gas but accused of authoritarian rule and human rights violations.The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and
Equatorial Guinea are all getting special attention.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-122725632.html
In a lengthy state visit from March to April 2006, President Obiang sought to reopen the closed embassy, claiming that "the lack of a U.S. diplomatic presence is definitely holding back economic growth."
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President Obiang was warmly greeted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who called him a "good friend"
Do you want me to continue?????
So what are they? I hope not white...
how about 50 years from now, will it be ok to critisize them by that point, or are africans gonna be brainwashed forever?
