Agustín Velloso

1. BUSINESSMEN, AMBASSADORS, LOBBYISTS AND OTHER ANIMALS

February 23, 2012. The telephone rings in the office of the super-secret agent 86:

In May 2011 I went to the General Archive of the Administration (AGA), located in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), to try to get official documentation on the stays of Moise Tshombe in Spain.

Spain's relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which began soon after independence in 1960, are marked by their support for Belgian plans against it, backed up by the United States.

THE BAD

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea’s recalcitrant leader, is a very wealthy man. He has amassed such a fortune that he could only get rid of his bank notes by burning them.

Oh, pirates! What a wonderful word. It brings back sweet memories from our childhood. Unscrupulous, merciless, astute characters; today armed with automatic weapons.

On 3 August, few in Equatorial Guinea will have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the coup d’état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema against Macias Nguema, his uncle and the head of the state. Obiang’s government refers to what happened with these words:

NOTES

1. http://www.who.int/countries/cog/publications/missive_27.pdf
2. http://www.cpds-gq.org/comunicados2007/noticia071113.html)

At the end of October 2007 in Madrid, Spanish President Zapatero promised 0.7% of GDP towards development aid during some workshops promoted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and presided over by Queen Sofía.