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Categories: Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Honest and Ethical Government, Civil Rights and Equality, National Security, Social Justice, Energy Policy, Ranting and Venting, Featured
Slate runs down Teodoro Obiang "the ruler of Equatorial Guinea whose life seems a parody of the dictator genre."
Some years after executing his uncle in a bloody coup, Teodoro hit the jackpot:
[S]ince oil was found in the country's waters in the Gulf of Guinea, ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil, Chevron, and other firms have invested more than $10 billion to extract the treasure, transforming Equatorial Guinea into the third-largest energy exporter in sub-Saharan Africa.
Teodoro then promptly sent the first $700 million in revenue to provide help to his country's desperately poor citizens be laundered in his personal bank accounts in DC.
What's the US's response to this brutal dictator who has "permanent contact with the Almighty" and therefore can "kill anyone without being called to account"?
Invite him over for Tea & Crumpets and have our Secretary of State call him a "good friend."
They're right, this is beyond parody.
