Teodoro Obiang person

“Obiang actually represents an improvement on his uncle, who killed or drove into exile about a third of the country’s people...…”

“...the Bush administration, which has embraced Obiang and turned a more or less blind eye to the fact that the dictator has tortured his people...…”

“...and is courting the Chinese as well because they, like the United States, “don’t get too involved in internal matters.”…”

“Without a sponsor like the United States or China—nation-states that are so dependent on global resources to fund their economies and militaries that old distinctions between domestic and international interests have no meaning for them—Obi…”