Under President Francisco Macias Nguema Equatorial Guinea aided Soviet arms transfers to Angola's Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA)...
The first President Francisco Macias Nguema relied mainly on his clan for his political base...
Now Brigadier General (Retired) Obiang's regime has been handing out punishments as awful as those in the 1970s when he was Defence Minister under Francisco Macias Nguema the uncle against whom he led a bloody coup in 1979...
Ever since he overthrew and executed his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in 1979 his constant aim has been to eliminate any challenge to himself and his Esangui clan...