Condi gets cozy with a dictator: “you are a good friend and we welcome you”

There’s a good write-up at Liberal Oasis.

Or you could just read the text of Condi’s happy chat with the dictator here, from the State Department’s own website.

The Amnesty International report on Condi’s “good friend” includes grossly unfair trials, roundups and beatings of immigrants, suspicious electoral results, financial fraud, confessions extracted under torture, and summary executions.  Care for some champagne?

Meanwhile, happy pal runs a country where most people live on less than a dollar a day, but Condi’s new best friend squirreled away tens (and possibly hundreds) of millions of dollars in a DC bank known for its lax standards, ties to the CIA, and (coincidentally, of course) handling of terrorist funding.

Sweet. 

UPDATE — oh, and I forgot: Obiang’s globetrotting son — the one in charge of housing for his poor nation, which he apparently oversees from his mansions in London, Paris, and Los Angeles — has been dating hip-hop singer Eve

Small, nasty little world.