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Francisco Macías Nguema
- vezycash 11y agoAbsolute power corrupts absolutely. The first president of Equatorial Guinea, Macías Nguema won his election post in a free and fair election. It all went to hell after that. He replaced the Constitution with a new document that gave him absolute power. He also changed the national motto to, "There is no other God than Macías Nguema." During Christmas in 1975, he ordered about 150 of his opponents killed. Soldiers dressed up in Santa Claus costumes murdered them by shooting at the football stadium. He assigned himself the title, "Grand Master of Education, Science, and Culture." By the end of his rule, nearly all of the country's educated class was either executed or forced into exile.