If you think this one's bad you should have seen his uncle Anthony Daniels visited Equatorial Guinea, the target of the mercenaries' failed coup, in less enlightened times

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 29, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

There is no leader in the world who more deserves to be overthrown than Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea for the last quarter of a century. By rights, his brutality, corruption and venality should not go unpunished; yet I doubt that the mercenaries who planned to overthrow him, and whom Sir Mark Thatcher is accused of having backed financially, were motivated by a burning ambition to bring democracy and clean government to the volcanoes of Fernando Poo and the jungles of Rio Muni.

On the contrary: I am sure that they knew that one venal dictator in Equatorial ...

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