Borders liberia. Its one of the poorest country in the world, guinea is. And that is a stark thing when you have some of the most impressive untapped Natural Resources in the world. But guinea got independence from france in 1958. And then they started essentially a long cycle of suffering under dictators who ruled for life and who took a long time to die. Their first leader took power upon independence in 1958. He stayed in power from 1958 until he died in 1984. 26 years later. Then as soon as they were rid of him, they got another dictator in 1984. And he held on for 24 years. Until he died too in 2008. But for all the problems that guinea has had as a country, for all that all the challenges it has struggled through, guineas Natural Resources have not really been a help thus far. Yes, they do have the Worlds Largest untapped deposits of iron ore but that has not necessarily turned out to be a good thing for them. Mostly what it has turned out to be for them is a scandal and a crime.
Until he died too in 2008. But for all the problems that guinea has had as a country, for all that all the challenges it has struggled through, guineas Natural Resources have not really been a help thus far. Yes, they do have the Worlds Largest untapped deposits of iron ore but that has not necessarily turned out to be a good thing for them. Mostly what it has turned out to be for them is a scandal and a crime. And now that part of it is becoming part of our president ial politics here in america. Reporter Jesse Drucker has a remarkable piece that just posted this afternoon in the New York Times. Its about more potentially criminal trailing ends that seem to have followed our new first family into their new lives in the white house. And although a lot of that story is about this remote west african country of guinea, my favorite part of the story actually takes place in jacksonville, florida. At the jacksonville, florida, airport. Just a few years ago, 2013, the widow of one of the pas
New york times. Its about more potentially criminal trailing ends that seem to have followed our new first family into their new lives in the white house. And although a lot of that story is about this remote west african country of guinea, my favorite part of the story actually takes place in jacksonville, florida. At the jacksonville, florida, airport. Just a few years ago, 2013, the widow of one of the past dictate ers of dinny, the widow of the dictator who died in 2008, she became a cooperating witness for the fbi. One day in the spring of 2013, she put on a wire. The fbi wired her up so they could surveil and tape her conversation. And she went to the Jacksonville Airport. And she had a meeting at a diner at the Jacksonville Airport with a representative from a Large Mining Company with interests in her home country and in that big iron ore deposit. In 2008, guinea had awarded to this company the exploration rights to half of that gigantic deposit of iron ore. It was a little bit
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