Teodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial Guinea, persecutes and kidnaps his opponents to the last corner of the planet. Since 1997, 34 dissidents have been kidnapped by Obiang's secret services.
Paying hitmen or African collaborators and using the presidential plane as a diplomatic shield is the common pattern of these kidnappings. Some opponents were executed, others have disappeared, according to reports from a police investigation to which EL PAÍS has had access. All the kidnappings bear an extraordinary similarity to that of the four opponents, two of them Spanish, kidnapped in South Sudan.