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Part Two: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards

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What's Going on in Equatorial Guinea?

Wales was responsible for also putting together most of the non military aspects of the scheme. He set the day of the actual event for a Thursday or a Friday, because those were the days that most ministers would be in Malabo and Equatorial Guinea. The coup plotters would then have the weekend to consolidate their power and reopen the country on Monday. So that's kind of was the goal is like, we overthrew the government on Friday, we like worked through the weekend,. And then by Monday, we got the whole new country set up.

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