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Wednesday
06Aug

A coup...d'etat?


Very recently I had a conversation with an unnamed person, AH. The topic of the conversation was the lack of coups that have happening in the recent years. It is always an exciting thing, especially when it is one of those hostile but not deadly instances. I am not talking about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, I am talking a little bit more cagey.

As of right now news pouring out of the oil barron country of Mauritania is that the military is or has displaced the current leadership after the canning of 4 military officals because of their support for politicians who were threatening to bring corruption charges on certain influential people. Now apparently the government is more friendly to hard line Islamists. People like NYP, FoxNews, NewsMax and CNN for that matter have all appeared to not care. Which I will say is not the field day/media circus I expected. We shall see in the coming weeks I guess. Last I heard the president is detained. That must be so shitty, going from the president of a country to captive of your own subordinates.

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