Guinea Bissau Government in Exile

In the West African country of Guinea Bissau, cocaine traffickers teamed up with the military last year to topple the civilian government.

Now that civilian government is in exile in Portugal, the former colonial power. Reporter David Hecht caught up with one of the exiled officials.

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