Download or read book OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA written by JAVIER CLEMENTE ENGONGA AVOMO and published by DelRei . This book was released on with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No African leader who wants good for his people has ever been welcomed by Western political powers. From Tomás Sankara to the imprisonment of Mandela by the Germans who control South Africa, going through all the prefabricated wars in Africa to cause social instability while the resources of the peoples are plundered; very few African leaders with true nationalism and pan-Africanism have led the destinies of their peoples. The socio-political instability of Africa and its peoples is the ultimate goal of racist imperialisms in the world. That is why the story of Obiang Nguema mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea is an important part of the History of Africa, the True History of Africa. No African leader or African leader who has wanted to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of his country has been considered a friend to the imperialists and the financial powers that control global macro politics. For this reason, and because nobody is perfect, to write about Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is to write with knowledge of the facts, since I have always defended a single cause in relation to my country, and it is the cause of A Better Guinea. As an African, respect for the elderly regardless of personal particularities makes the responsibility of writing in the year 2021 about an African Head of State in power since 1979, five years before my birth, even more serious. As an Equatorial Guinean, I know from experience the socio-political reality of the country from all fronts, and I have never been impartial, because I am an objective and above all rational person. The disorder and the senseless, and that alleged monopoly of knowledge of those who claim to be politicians in Equatorial Guinea because that is their profession, is not part of my rhetoric. I respect everyone's opinion and as an Equatoguinean and African, I do not expect my opinion to be respected, much less by Equatoguineans and Africans, because in short, in Africa individual opinions are not respected or rather, they are not tolerated. For this reason, I am going to ask intolerance for a little patience while reading these lines, since freedom of expression is not a two-edged sword but simply and clearly a straight line. There is no country without poverty, but poverty is a shame, because it is created easily and through negligence, and it is also easily avoided and with the technical knowledge that experience provides. When a country is as rich as Equatorial Guinea, with more maritime territory than continental and with huge deposits of oil and gas; For a small country of around two million inhabitants that means doom for the People when its leaders are irresponsible, and a blessing for the Nation when its leaders are responsible. When people talk about Equatorial Guinea in the world, unfortunately they only talk about oil and human rights, those rights that are denied to all Africans and Afro-descendants in the world when their resources are assaulted and kidnapped by foreign powers. Those rights that are also denied to many Equatorial Guineans, and the evidence is in their experiences, experiences and their truth, which is also a struggle. Coming of age of life is not the same as coming of age in politics. The political age of majority is acquired after many experiences. The political age of majority is acquired after having been assigned to the front line together with the supposed political leaders and seeing that they are not leaders of anything or represent anyone. Political age of majority is acquired by observing and feeling that the People of Equatorial Guinea are very tired of their own discontent. The political age of majority is acquired after seeing that corruption is the flag that has replaced the flag of any party, and that is a serious problem for our young Nation. Equatorial Guinea is a young country that has reached Political Majority. The political age of majority is acquired when one speaks in the first person and with knowledge of the facts, because he does not have political, economic, blood or any other commitments with anyone other than the People. Malabo, 23.06.2021 Javier Clemente Engonga,

Download or read book Obiang Nguema Mbasogo President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea written by Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the easy moments and when everything is going well, everyone is your friend; and in difficult moments the true enemies are revealed. This has been the political lesson of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in its small project of a modern nation in central Africa. This small African nation has become in recent decades in the crosshairs of locals and strangers. On the one hand, not only is it the only Spanish-speaking African country, but its abundant natural resources, mainly oil and gas, have caused the country to come out of oblivion after a ruthless Spanish colonization. This is the True History of Africa, of Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

Download or read book World Report 2015 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch’s signature yearly report, which, in the 2014 volume, highlighted the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance, and more, and also featured photo essays of child marriage in South Sudan, the cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and religious fighting in Central African Republic. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2014 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report 2015 is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Download or read book Background Notes Equatorial Guinea written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Obi s Nightmare written by Tenso Tenso and published by Phoneme Media. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obi is the world's longest serving dictator, Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Obi's Nightmare is just that, a comic about Obi's worst day ever. What would be the worst possible thing that could happen to Obi? Would it be for his heir apparent son's $50 million collection of supercars to be seized by French authorities? What if the country's vast oil reserves were to dry up, or what if he was forced to share power? Would it be the results of a truly democratic election, or the worsening of his already fragile health? No, answer the pseudonymous authors of the first ever Equatoguinean graphic novel. The worst possible thing that could happen to President Obiang would be to endure the life of an average Guinean citizen. Welcome to Obi's Nightmare, the riches-to-rags tale of Obiang's living out a single ordinary day as an ordinary Guinean, in a country ravaged by poverty and squalid living conditions for all but a very select few of Obi's former associates, despite boasting the continent's highest GDP. This no-hold-barred comic dares its readers to laugh at the man who has declared himself above both international law and common decency, by taking a comical but critical look at the everyday life of the average Guinean. Working together with EG Justice, Phoneme produced the Spanish-language original version of La Pesadilla de Obi, which has been smuggled into Equatorial Guinea to challenge the dictatorship and promote democracy.

Download or read book Well Oiled written by Alex Vines and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 102-page report details how the dictatorship under President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has used an oil boom to entrench and enrich itself further at the expense of the country's people. Since oil was discovered there in the early 1990s, Equatorial Guinea's gross domestic product (GDP) has increased more than 5,000 percent, and the country has become the fourth-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, living standards for the country's 500,000 people have not substantially improved.--Publisher description.

Download or read book The Licit Life of Capitalism written by Hannah Appel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism—practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.

Download or read book Political Handbook of the World 1998 written by Arthur S. Banks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Handbook of the World annually provides up-to-date political information on all the world's countries in a balanced, accurate and comprehensive manner. A singular and authoritative reference work for nearly 70 years, each new volume builds on the research and scholarship of previous editions, offering rare insight into stories making headlines, judiciously outlining contemporary conflicts and analysing current foreign policy within the informed context of past events and decisions. It is considered to be the single-volume reference work of choice for libraries, diplomats, academic faculties, international corporations, and others needing accurate, timely information.

Download or read book The World Factbook written by Central Intelligence Agency and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By intelligence officials, for intelligent people

Download or read book The Puppet Masters written by Emile van der Does de Willebois and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the use of these entities in nearly all cases of corruption. It builds upon case law, interviews with investigators, corporate registries and financial institutions and a 'mystery shopping' exercise to provide evidence of this criminal practice.

Download or read book 2022 The Head of State s Newsletter The Balance of Power V 4 MARCH 26 written by The Head of State´s Newsletter, The Balance of Power© and published by The Head of State´s Newsletter, The Balance of Power©. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor's opinion The pact of diplomatic silence The welfare of the majority of the population must be the objective of the entire Executive, of the Government and of the private sector, because when this is not the case, the People suffer, and live kidnapped, and in the end will always be freed from all chains, especially the chains imposed by the harshness of poverty, bad decisions and bad social policies. One cannot call a true leader an individual whose merit is the oppression and destruction of his own People or of the People he exploits with impunity; that is why corruption, impunity and violence are a scourge for the progress and economic development of any Country and those who call themselves leaders or pretend to be leaders should take a good look in the mirror and conclude with the truth, and not deceive themselves or others. It is a serious mistake to want to establish a culture of mediocrity in which the important thing is to participate.

Download or read book American Kleptocracy written by Casey Michel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." —The Los Angeles Review of Books For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a center of global offshoring took place: how states like Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company, and how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing trans-national crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America's universities and think tanks and cultural centers; and how those on the front-line are trying to restore America's legacy of anti-corruption leadership—and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy.

Download or read book Equatorial Guinea written by United States Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equatorial Guinea is nominally a multi-party constitutional republic. Since a military coup in 1979, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has dominated all branches of government in collaboration with his clan and political party, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE). On May 26, the PDGE won a claimed 98.7 percent of seats in the bicameral legislature and 98.1 percent of city council seats throughout the country. The lopsided results and weak independent monitoring of electoral processes raised suspicions of systematic vote fraud. Foreign diplomatic observers noted numerous irregularities and the presence of military personnel at all voting stations. There were instances in which elements of the security forces acted independently of civilian control. Security forces committed human rights abuses. The most significant human rights abuses in the country were disregard for the rule of law and due process, including police use of torture and excessive force; denial of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association; and widespread official corruption. Other human rights abuses included: inability of citizens to change their government; arbitrary and unlawful killings; abuse of detainees and prisoners; and poor conditions in prisons and detention facilities. Arbitrary arrest and detention, incommunicado detention, harassment and deportation of foreign residents without due process, and lack of judicial independence were problems. The government restricted the right to privacy, freedom of movement, and political party activity. Restrictions on domestic and international nongovernmental organization (NGO) activity, violence and discrimination against women and children, and trafficking in persons occurred. Societal discrimination against persons with disabilities; ethnic minorities and immigrants; the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community; and persons with HIV/AIDS was a problem. Labor rights were restricted.

Download or read book Small is Not Always Beautiful written by Max Liniger-Goumaz and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a monograph of Equatorial Guinea, which consists of the island of Fernando Po and the continental territory of Rio Muni. It was a small but relatively prosperous Spanish colony up till 1968.

Download or read book Political Leadership in Africa written by Giovanni Carbone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

Download or read book Blowout written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All “A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today.”—The New York Times Book Review In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, revolutionaries in Ukraine raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. She deftly shows how Russia’s rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Vladimir Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia’s rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the West’s most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, “like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can’t really blame the lion. It’s in her nature.” Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world’s most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, “Democracy either wins this one or disappears.”

Download or read book World Report 2018 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.