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Article

1 Jan 2005

Author:
Peter Maass, in Mother Jones

A Touch of Crude

[the link connects to partial story on Mother Jones website; for complete version, enter the following access code in box at bottom of that page: MJCH5A] American bankers handled his loot. Oil companies play by his rules...How the pursuit of oil is propping up the West African dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang [in Equatorial Guinea]. [refers to Mobil Equatorial Guinea (part of ExxonMobil), Riggs Bank, Halliburton, ChevronTexaco, Marathon Oil, Amerada Hess, Otong, Abayak, GEOGAM, Mobile Oil Guinea Ecuatorial (joint venture ExxonMobil & Abayak)]