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Article: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.(President, Equatorial Guinea)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Status: President of Equatorial Guinea.
Reputation: Blood-and-oil-soaked dictator of one of the most corrupt, ethnocentric, oppressive and anti-democratic states in the world.
Cervantes in Don Quixote has the protagonist imagine a man called Alifanfaron, who is 'a fevered pagan ... Lord of the Great Island of Trapobana'.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, describes himself as 'Great General of the Alifanfaron [Army] Division, Lord of the Great Islands of Bioko, Annobon and Rio Muni'--though any association with the imaginings of Don Quixote is probably unintended.
His own fevered imaginings are quite ...