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Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

The work of Ramón Esono Ebalé at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.

A cartoonist out to unseat a dictator is arrested

Arts

Equatorial Guinea is both repressive and oil rich but almost everyone there is poor. A cartoonist uses his drawings to point the finger at the country’s long-time dictator. But now he’s been arrested.

Revelers from the Beija Flor samba school participate in the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on February 17, 2015.

Why Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival may have danced to the beat of a dictator

Culture
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