Dios esta en contra de la voluntad de Obiang y sus socios. El mundo una vez más a denunciado el saqueo que el clan Obiang practica con nuestros recursos y esta vez el New York Times no ha podido quedar atras.
Se trata de un pequeño país llamado Guinea Ecuatorial ex colonia española situado en el Golfo de Guinea y gobernado por uno de los viejos dictadores del continente Teodoro Obiang que juntamente con su familia monopolizan el poder y sepultan o esconde todo los dineros procedentes del petroleo y los productos derivados como el gas..... en cuantas secretas que tienen abiertas en todas partes del mundo.
Sólo en 2007 el pais tuvo una ganancia de 4.7 Billones de dólares en el sector petrolicero sin contar con otros recursos y ingresos lo que hace expectar que Guinea Ecuatorial tenga un
por medio de vidad igualada con paises como España, Italia entre otros.
Pero la criminalidad de Obiang y su clan no permite que ni la mitad de esas expectaciones se conviertan en realidad. Hasta el extremo de que mantienen a un 77% de la poblacion en una miseria absoluta. el resto lo encontraran en el texto que pego abajo de la revista estadounidense New York Times.

July 9, 2009, 7:01 am
Oil Corruption in Equatorial Guinea
By Jad Mouawad



A new report recaps much of what can go wrong when powerful oil interests encounter a corrupt and ruthless dictatorship. Few countries symbolize oil-fueled corruption and nepotism more than Equatorial Guinea, a small African country nestled in the Gulf of Guinea whose cast includes a life-long dictator, a family clan that monopolizes power, and enormous oil wealth that gets funneled to secret bank accounts around the world.

The former Spanish colony has also attracted a lot of attention in the past decade as one of the fastest-growing oil producers in Africa and a promising source of petroleum imports for the United States. Equatorial Guinea now produces about 500,000 barrels of oil a day — almost all of it exported across the Atlantic.

As oil prices surged in recent years, the trickle of wealth turned into a bonanza for Equatorial Guinea. In 2007, the government’s oil revenues swelled to $4.8 billion in 2007, from $190 million in 1993. But much of the country’s population continues to live in dismal conditions. According to the International Monetary Fund, 77 percent of the population lived under the poverty line in 2006.

“Poverty remains high and social indicators weak,” according to the fund (PDF).

A new report from the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch, released on Thursday in Spain, recaps much of what can go wrong when powerful oil interests encounter a corrupt and ruthless dictatorship.

President Teodoro Obiang has been in power since 1979, after he deposed his uncle in a coup.

“Here is a country where people should have the per capita wealth of Spain or Italy, but instead they live in poverty worse than in Afghanistan or Chad,” said Arvind Ganesan, the director of the business and human rights program at Human Rights Watch. “This is a testament to the government’s corruption, mismanagement and callousness toward its own people.”


Equatorial Guinea is a member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, or E.I.T.I., a loose coalition of governments, international groups like the World Bank, human right organizations and oil companies that seek transparency among oil-producing states for a few years. But it has made “only modest progress” to implement transparency initiatives, according to the International Monetary Fund.

“This is a test case,” Mr. Ganesan said in an interview. “There is a window for reform. The question is whether the Obama administration will push for human rights and use E.I.T.I. as a foothold to see where the oil revenue goes. If there are no improvements on the corruption issues, there’s a risk of turning E.I.T.I. into a fig leaf for the dictatorship.”

The Bush administration had sought to improve its relations with the government of Equatorial Guinea after the United States closed its embassy in 1995 to protest human rights abuses. The Human Rights Watch report says that the United States reopened its embassy following “intensive lobbying” efforts from American oil companies that felt threatened by the growing influence of Chinese companies throughout West Africa.

“Companies in the oil business have been anxious to improve the image of the country and so underplay how politically unstable the country has become,” the report said. These companies include Exxon Mobil, Hess, Marathon, Chevron, Devon and Vanco Energy. Within a few years, Equatorial Guinea has become the fourth-biggest destination of American investments in Sub-Saharan Africa — after South African, Angola and Nigeria.

“Obiang controls the oil, the government and the country,” said Mr. Ganesan. “Without meaningful international pressure, the immense wealth of Equatorial Guinea will continue to be a private cash machine for a few instead of the means to improving the lives of many.”


Fuente: Fermin

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