When I wrote about Haiti last article, I found that the brainwashing ability of former Haitian President Douvalier was already very strong, especially his self-made one and Jesus' selfie, in which Jesus gently touched his shoulder and said "I chose him" strongly and forcefully, which simply made me refreshed and speechless. Just when I was surprised that there were such stinky people in this world, I suddenly found that in Equatorial Guinea in far west Africa, there was a black president with a bigger pattern, and in the eyes of this black president, what God Jesus was, it was just his subordinates, Equatorial Guinea was created by God at his command, otherwise the country would not exist at all.
This black president is today's male protagonist, Marcie Nguema Bjorgo Negne Endong, a name that is a bit long, and everyone can affectionately call him Macière.
A master of the slap on the back
Maciès was born in 1924 to a wealthy family in Equatorial Guinea, which was still only an overseas colony of Spain, not called Equatorial Guinea, but Spanish Guinea, under the jurisdiction of the Spanish colonial government. At that time, Spanish Guinea had two provinces, one in the eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea, that is, in the western part of the African continent, and the other in the western part of the Gulf of Guinea, a small island called Bioko Island, both of which were incorporated into the territory of Equatorial Guinea after independence, which also led to why today's Equatorial Guinea is either on the mainland and some are on small islands.
Marcie did not study much, after graduating from junior high school, he ran to grow cocoa and coffee, but he was really unwilling to be lonely, so he ran to take the civil service exam three times, hoping to fly huang Tengda, and the result was not admitted once. It doesn't matter if there is no culture, as long as he can lean on the thighs of the Spanish colonial government, so he goes around saying good things about the colonial government and expressing his loyalty, which is not bad, and he is immediately welcomed. The colonial government saw that such a "sensible" person was afraid that if he did not cultivate it well, he was afraid that he would spoil a good seedling. So, at the time of the fourth civil service examination, he was released water, and Marcière was successfully put into the colonial government, and in 1962 he became the county magistrate of Montgomo County.
As a county magistrate, Macière still likes to pat himself on the back, and it is said that in order to get close to the Spanish Fuehrer, Francisco Paulino Emmenesildo, Theoduro Franco I. Bajamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (yes, this name is so long, the Spaniard name is the longest I have ever seen, longer than the Arab), Macière also changed his surname, called Francisco Marcias Nguema, Even in 1963, taking advantage of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Franco's rule, he went to Madrid to congratulate him in person, touched Franco, and successfully visited Franco's dock.
Just at this time, the international situation has changed, the colonies have become independent, Spanish Guinea under Spanish colonization will become independent sooner or later, franco is looking for puppets to serve as the president of Spanish Guinea, so that Spain can continue to control. Franco saw that Macière was "loyal" and a rare puppet, so he involved him in the preparations for the self-government. Good job, boy, you will be my Franco man from now on. In 1963, Macie was elected Deputy Prime Minister of the Autonomous Government, and by 1968, Spanish Guinea had officially become independent and was renamed Equatorial Guinea, and Macie had been elected the first president of Equatorial Guinea.
Macière relied on the Spanish colonial government to step by step to become president, but if you think he will obediently become a puppet when he takes office, you are wrong. Just as the so-called three fires of the new official took office, Macière's first fire was burned to Spain, and he was very opposed to colonialism and imperialism, so the first thing he did when he came to power was to call on the people of the whole country to drive out the Spaniards, leaving no mercy at all, and in just 5 months, he drove away more than 7,000 Spain in Equatorial Guinea. This can't help but make people wonder, is this young man who slapped his ass and said good things for the Spanish colonial government before, but is he actually a national hero who is lying on his back and enduring humiliation?
If you think so, then you're wrong, and Marcière's brain circuits are even more unpredictable than we think. After driving the Spaniards away, Massier turned his gun to the country, ready to start a second fire and begin to eliminate dissidents.
In July 1970, Macière merged all the parties in the country into one party, named the United Workers' Party, and gave himself the title of life president and president for life, which was not enough, and later added drama to himself, sealing an honor of "Miracle of Equatorial Guinea", which simply blinded my eyes. With these blessings of status, Marcière felt that simply being the president of a country seemed to be something less, so he began to extend his claws to the ministers, and one of the foreign ministers, because he opposed Macière's expulsion of the Spaniards, was called to the presidential palace for a short time, imprisoned, and executed a few days later. After that, 10 of the 12 ministers of the entire government system were killed by him, and by 1976, Macière was already the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, the minister of defense, the minister of justice, the minister of finance, the minister of propaganda, the minister of the people's armed forces, the minister of state security and the minister of people's construction, the minister of land reclamation, information, tourism and national propaganda, and so on.
In this situation, I really want to ask him, are you tired like this?
It may be that it is really too tiring to wear multiple jobs, and then Marcie simply abolished these departments, leaving only prisons, police and army in the whole country, the police are responsible for arresting people, prisons are responsible for collecting people, the army is responsible for suppression, there are 3 departments on it, and the other finances and construction are useless in front of him, because there is no budget at all. After Macie executed the governor of the central bank in 1976, the country had no central bank, the state finances were all included in his own account, how he loved to spend, the lives of the people he did not care, if anyone dared to ask questions, he could kill him, so that the country would not have problems.
I have to say that Marcière is simply a "talent", and if the person who raised the problem is solved, it will not be solved. What a little witty.
But there was still a problem, people were almost killed, the people were scared half to death, they all ran away, by the end of the 1970s, a total of about 150,000 people fled abroad, nearly a third of the country's population, even the 45,000 Nigerians who came to work on the plantations of Equatorial Guinea were scared away, which was good, no one worked. Originally Equatorial Guinea was an agrarian country that lived by growing coffee and cocoa, but now that no one grows it, the yield has dropped sharply, with cocoa production falling from 38,000 tons in 1967 to 8,000 tons, leaving only a fraction, and coffee from 8,000 tons in 1967 to 150 tons. If this continues, the account will run out of money.
However, this did not bother the "smart" Marcie, after all, he was a person who had served as the minister of finance, and he still had a lot of money. No, Marcière thought of another good way, and that was kidnapping.
But whenever he saw a foreigner in the country, Marcie immediately kidnapped him, and then threatened the country to make money, this kind of money with one hand and one hand to make a profit, kidnapping a German woman made more than fifty-seven thousand DOLLARs, a Spanish professor made forty thousand dollars, a Soviet made six thousand dollars, to ask why the Soviets would be so cheap, it may be because the Soviet Union was still the world hegemon at that time, a discount. Really worthy of being the minister of finance, very economically minded, after all, angered the Soviet Union, the country was destroyed, it is not worth the loss, and the long stream of thin water is the way to make money. Moreover, a world hegemon will not go to great lengths for a mere six thousand dollars, the key is still a country that has nothing, and if it is not good, it will have to put money into it after the Soviet attack.
I have absolute reason to believe that Macière chose to kidnap this low-risk and profitable way of making money after comprehensively considering the advantages of his country and the international situation at that time, and synthesizing all the risks that may arise.
Among the many people macière kidnapped, there was also a missionary, known as the last missionary in Equatorial Guinea, who was also kidnapped by Marcie for money. Many people will wonder, is equatorial Guinea not religious? How dare you kidnap a missionary? This is a good question, the original Spanish colonization was indeed religious, then Equatorial Guinea believed in Catholicism, that is, Christianity, but since Marcière took office, it is different, he is called "the miracle of Equatorial Guinea", how can he allow the existence of God, if there is, it should be him. Thus, Marcière began his personal "deification" of the riot, which was also his third fire in office.
I don't know if it is because he has not passed the civil service examination three times, Marcie seems to be extremely disgusted with knowledge, it is almost to the point of hatred, who said that knowledge changes fate, he has no knowledge, he does not change his fate as well, and becomes president. So I ordered everyone to stop reading and honestly farm. Therefore, since Macière took office, he began to exterminate knowledge, closed schools and libraries, did not allow the distribution of newspapers and magazines, and the people could not even say the word "knowledge", resulting in the people of this country being illiterate, the knowledgeable have been driven away, and the only literate people in the country are a dozen technicians. Originally, religion was still allowed to exist, the people did not read, they were tired of farming and planting, they could still do prayers and so on, Macière thought, this religion preaches God all day long, does not publicize him, so that his popularity is very low, so it will not work. So he ordered that all religions forbade the propagation of God, the propagation of Macière, and that every religion should hang a picture of him, proclaiming that Macière was the true God, that God was equatorial Guinea created according to Macière's request, and that without Macière there would be no Equatorial Guinea.
After such a wave of operation, it is simply a large wave of fans, after all, there are no books to read, do not understand anything, religion says what is what. Seeing that the effect had been achieved, Massie simply did not want religion, so from 1974 onwards, the people were not allowed to pray and do funerals, and then the religion was simply shut down, the missionaries were driven away, and the old preacher who walked the slowest kidnapped him to make extra money.
Unexpected
These three fires of Macière almost burned Equatorial Guinea clean, before agriculture can be exported, now even their own food is difficult, the economy is almost negligible, the population is almost killed, during the reign of a total of about 50,000 people, escaped 150,000, the entire country population is nearly half less, the whole country does not even have electricity, only a few roads, the life of the people simply returned to primitive society. But this did not bother Marcie, after all, the pain is someone else's, he has always been very happy, on the one hand, there is nothing to kidnap, kill and kill, on the other hand, he plays "human wife".
Marcière's habits are simply unique, he actually likes people's wives, but what about a married woman, as the president of a country, how can he win people's favors, what about other people's husbands, and how can he live in the future? It doesn't matter, after killing, you don't have to think about it so much, after killing his husband, the woman becomes single, then Marcie can't be with him naturally, this operation is simply flawless. In addition, Marcière will also "eat jealousy", he once killed all the ex-boyfriends of one of his lovers, and sure enough, men will die of vinegar.
In addition to making waves at home, Marcière also made waves abroad.
In 1971 and 1972, Massue repeatedly declared that he would resist colonialism and imperialism and that he would build Equatorial Guinea into a free country without any foreign influence. Colonialism referred to Spain, so when Marcière came to power, he began to drive the Spaniards away, confiscated their businesses, and broke off diplomatic relations with them in 1977. So, who does imperialism mean? I believe everyone knows, it must be Ame Rickon - the United States. So, in 1976, Macière listed two American diplomats as the most undesirable, and even the "true gods" said that they were not welcome, then the United States must not let them stay in Equatorial Guinea anymore, so as not to stain the eyes of the "true gods". Therefore, the United States was immediately frightened to announce the suspension of diplomatic relations with Equatorial Guinea and to keep a certain distance from the "true God".
Who can not hate such a black president who is "out of turmoil"? But hate and hate, the people have already worshipped him as a god, they do not dare to do anything to him, foreign countries are too lazy to take care of him, and they are afraid of wasting bullets when they beat him, so will they let him do whatever he wants? Of course not, because it wasn't long before Marcière made a big taboo, that is, not to give money. Some people will ask, who else does the president want money, who dares to ask the president for money, we said earlier that the whole country is actually only left with the prison, the police and the army, the country has no finances, the money is included in the president's account, Marcière always has to solve their salary problem. This time came to Marcie for money is the National Guard, the National Guard is a presidential private protection guard set up after Marcie took office in order to prevent the army from rebelling, it is reasonable to say that this kind of bodyguard should give money the most, otherwise who can protect him, but Marcie is in arrears for several months of wages did not give, everyone is hungry, collectively run to ask for wages, everyone desperately protects you, the point of money is not too much.
But who knows, these few who ran to ask for money did not get it, and they lost their lives, and Marcière was still as cruel and ruthless as ever, treating everyone equally, whoever wanted my money, whose life I wanted. But this time Macière still stabbed the basket, because the person who took the lead in the salary was the brother of the then Commander of the National Guard, Obiang, who was the nephew of Macière, and after Macie took office, he began family rule, he himself held the position of multiple ministers, and also stuffed the family's relatives into various departments, turning the whole of Equatorial Guinea into their family business. And among them, the best mix is Obiang.
After Macie became the first president of Equatorial Guinea, he promoted Obiang to the commander of the garrison on Bioko Island, and later to the commander of the National Guard, and Obiang did not help Masié to do bad things during his tenure. In 1975, he killed 150 Macie opponents, and in 1976 stormed the Nigerian consulate, injuring 11 people and arresting more than 100 government officials who opposed Macie, becoming Macie's right-hand man. However, all this changed because Marcière killed his own brother, who was my best friend, my biological brother, and had to add money (sorry, the drama). Obiang's brother is actually Macière's nephew, it may be that seeing this situation, Obiang is afraid that he will end up like this one day, so he simply starts first and turns against you.
On August 3, 1979, Obiang staged a coup d'état, but the road did not happen, not even blood, Macière heard the wind, ran away with two large boxes of money, and was caught two weeks later. When he went to court, Marcie alone was actually accused of more than 80,000 charges, which was simply blind to my eyes, which was also too capable of creating, reigning for 11 years, killing 50,000 people, killing 150,000 people, 150,000 people becoming refugees, the whole country has no water and no electricity economy, has rotted. But when I finally tried Marcie, I found that Equatorial Guinea actually had no law, and at this time Marcière smiled slightly, haha, I didn't expect it, I prejudged your prejudgment, there is no law I see how you judge. No way, Obiang had to borrow Spanish military law to try and finally sentence Marcié to death. As a result, the problem came again at the time of the execution, the whole country had no culture, and had long regarded Marcie as a true god, who dared to kill him, in case he came to me in the middle of the night. At this time, Marcie smiled slightly, haha, I didn't expect it, I prejudged your prejudgment again, I see the whole of Equatorial Guinea who dares to kill me.
There was no way, Obiang could only ask the soldiers of the Moroccan Royal Guard to help execute, which was to get rid of this scourge. At this point, Maciès, who had been a demon in Equatorial Guinea for 11 years, was completely eliminated, but although the man was gone, the influence was still there, and now, some people in Equatorial Guinea still think that his soul is still floating above the country. But this is not the most frightening, the most terrible is that after Marcie was arrested, a doctor specially made an appraisal of him, and it turned out that the good guy, it turned out that this boy had a mental illness, and the illness was not light, just a few years after ruling the government began to take medicine, and then he also took drugs, doubted all day, and the condition became more and more serious. Equatorial Guinea was ruled by a mentally ill person for 11 years, and if it were not for the coup d'état, it is estimated that it would not be found, and it would simply ruin the three views. I seemed to see Marcie smile slightly again, haha, didn't expect it.
Three soup changes do not change the medicine
Macié is gone, his nephew Obiang has become the new spokesman of Equatorial Guinea, about Obiang's administration, in fact, it is also a mixed reputation, first of all, because Macie, the madman, has already straightened out the country, but where the mind is normal, after coming to power, all the policies are against Macié, it should not make the country worse. Therefore, from 1979 onwards, Obiang began to promulgate laws, restore democracy, deal with foreign countries, in 1979 he resumed diplomatic relations with Spain, and a year later he resumed diplomatic relations with the United States, resumed diplomatic relations, and also joined the French CFA franc zone, and relations with France were hot. What's more, Brion wants to take some money from these countries and try to revive the economies that have little left, and throughout the 80s, the average GDP growth rate reached 3.1%, which is really not easy, gratifying, at least not negative growth.
Don't be in such a hurry to applaud, though, because in the early 90s, a lot of oil was discovered in the Gulf of Guinea, and Equatorial Guinea just along the Gulf of Guinea, with more than 480 kilometers of coastline, offshore areas are rich in oil and easy to refine. In short, Equatorial Guinea has made a windfall, which is simply a person sitting at home, and the money comes from heaven. Especially for a small, poor and broken country like Equatorial Guinea, it is simply a joy to fall from the sky. At present, the proven natural gas and crude oil reserves are 300 billion cubic meters and 5.6 billion barrels respectively, making it the third largest oil country in the sub-Saharan Desert. Some Americans once analyzed that these oil reserves in Equatorial Guinea can meet a quarter of the 10-year oil demand of the United States.
Wait, why meet the needs of the United States? Sure enough, unsurprisingly, seeing that Equatorial Guinea had no technology to extract oil, the US oil giant Mobil immediately ran to Equatorial Guinea with "full sincerity" to sign a contract, and Mobil generously gave up a layer of profits to Equatorial Guinea, and the remaining ninety percent of it was taken away by grievance. Yes, you heard it right, nine points, and 90% of Mobil, 10% of Equatorial Guinea, just when I was seriously suspicious of Whether Orbiang had no concept of money, Obiang's assistant visited CBS and told me the answer, it turned out that Equatorial Guinea was poor, it could make some money, not too greedy, the United States was willing to give it well, to be content. It really made me suddenly cheerful, Mao Sai suddenly opened, I realized that my pattern is small, people can not only consider themselves, but also consider the feeling that the value is tens of millions of times higher than their own value, people are so busy, but also come to earn your money, earn your money, but also willing to give you a little share, shouldn't you be grateful?
Yes, yes. Equatorial Guinea is not only grateful to Mobil, but also the oil companies such as Marathon in the United States and Dadol in France, which are all running upside down when they see profitability. Although only the "low-price contract" with Mobil has been exposed, I estimate that the other few are not much better, after all, they cannot destroy the market. Later, Obiang may have had a brainchild, increasing control over oil resources, stipulating that the government of Equatorial Guinea should hold more than 35% of all joint oil companies. Relying on these shares, Equatorial Guinea actually achieved an average GDP growth rate of 17.7% in the 1990s, and its per capita GDP rose steadily, leaving the ranks of the least developed countries in one fell swoop. Reaching its climax in 2012, $21,700, it was simply outrageously high, beyond reach, which has reached the standard of per capita GDP in developed countries, while the per capita GDP of the mainland in the same year was only $6,300. Is Equatorial Guinea about to turn from a pheasant to a phoenix, throw away other African countries, and ride the dust?
Please don't be impatient, the truth is not as good as imagined, and then I have to talk about the places where Obiang has been criticized since he came to power.
Almost all African national leaders have a common problem, that is, dictatorship, as long as there is no coup, no halfway burp, almost no one will take the initiative to expire and step down, eager to sit on the presidency, and Obiang is the same. Although after coming to power, the law was promulgated, stipulating a seven-year change, but in fact it was useless, and in 2001, those opposition parties were eligible to enter the cabinet, and there was no entry, the number was only one or two, and the vote did not have to be elected, so now, more than forty years later, Obiang is still the president of Equatorial Guinea.
In addition to dictatorship, African leaders also have a common disease, that is, corruption, I wrote a lot of African countries, Syria, Egypt, South Africa, etc., almost none of them are not corrupt, the first thing to do when they come to power is to engage in family rule, they are eager to put all their relatives into the government, and everyone who gets the chicken and dog have to ascend to heaven. The second thing is to start making money, don't look at equatorial Guinea's economy by leaps and bounds, the per capita GDP is so high, in fact, it is all in his pocket, Obiang has bought several villas in the United States, South Africa and other places, and has 6 private jets and Porsche, Ferrari and other expensive sports cars, his eldest son is not inferior, in Spain, France, the United States have mansions, but also every day with Hollywood film actors.
On the other hand, the people of Equatorial Guinea, although the whole country has turned over on oil, is not much different for them, and the money of the whole country is in the hands of the Obiang family and a small number of people, forming a serious gap between rich and poor. Equatorial Guinea's distribution of rich and poor is the same as their national distribution, in the continental area east of the Gulf of Guinea, where there are some poor people, not even railways, only some dilapidated roads, and on bioco Island in the west of the Gulf of Guinea, it is another scene, the capital Malabo is on this island, most of the rich people also live here, the infrastructure construction here is complete, the capital Malabo is a clean environment, becoming a tourist city, and the mainland is a world apart. More than half of the country's population has no running water, cannot get timely treatment for diseases, has a serious epidemic of infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, and has a high mortality rate.
Overall, equatorial Guinea has indeed improved a lot since Obiang took office, and the literacy rate of the population has risen sharply to 94%, becoming the first in southern Africa. Some basic public facilities have been built one after another, although few, but they are better than nothing. However, the national economy and oil are too deeply linked, the structure is too simple, the impact is too large, coupled with government corruption, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and it is difficult to improve the lives of the people. In the 2020 World Development Index released by the United Nations, Equatorial Guinea ranked 145th, which is a low level. Perhaps for the people, greed is greed, at least not like the previous pervert who killed people at every turn, which may be the reason why Brion can still reign for more than forty years.
Now 80 years old, Obiang is still fighting for the position of the country's supreme leader, which is all impressive. It is said that he had been thinking about a successor for a long time, but the situation did not seem to be optimistic, and his eldest son Mange, the brother who had been soaking in Hollywood and paris all day, was appointed vice president of Equatorial Guinea and became a quasi-successor. But Mange is wild and unruly, as corrupt as his father, and now that he has his father in town, there is nothing to do, and if it is hiccups one day, if it is really him on the throne, it will inevitably cause a riot, which is also the reason for Obiang's delay in retiring. Alas, it's really tangled, hundreds of millions of dollars of family property do not know who to give, this feeling is really uncomfortable.
Forget it, is this something I should think of someone with a monthly salary of 2,000?
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