Francisco Macias Nguema hoarded the money of the state, never taking it out of his suitcases. Government officials and the national guard often went great lengths without seeing any form of payment

because they had taken their glasses off out of common sense

equatorial guinea has not had a democratic election since

also, the situation got really weird in 2004 www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/books/review/Elkins.t.html