A don who threatens the Pope, double crosses his allies, humiliates his captains, and can't control his own soldiers doesn't last long. Eventually, the other families notice. Or, his own people notice.
#trump #Mobutu #Amin #Mugabe #RobertCurthose #NigerianGodfather
However, I do remember this from vaguely 1975 and it was crystallized by the documentary #WhenWeWereKings which also has contributions from Mailer and others like #GeorgePlympton and goes into the build up to the fight which took place in #Zaire under #Mobutu.
The book is amazingly written and the way Mailer describes events is superb in my opinion. He really brings the training and the sparring (both literal and figurative between Ali and Foreman) to life. [Cont...]
The villa, which previously bore the name #Villa_del_Mare, is one of the most expensive in the world - estimated at 120 million euros . Previously, it was owned by the #African dictator #Mobutu and the #Russian billionaire #Shalva_Chigirinsky.
According to #French media reports, #Alina_Kabaeva sometimes rested on a three-hectare plot in a luxurious “dacha” with three swimming pools, a tennis court and a helipad.
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1960-1965: #Congo
In 1960, the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) declared its independence from Belgium and democratically elected its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Shortly after he assumed power, President Joseph Kasavubu pushed him out of office amid a Belgian military invasion. Worried that the ensuing unrest provided fertile ground for Soviet incursion, the CIA encouraged and assisted attempts to kill Lumumba, arguing he was a communist leader akin to Castro. The CIA helped facilitate Lumumba’s capture in 1960 and assassination in 1961.
“This action precipitated the Congo Crisis (1960–1965), a period in which military leader Mobutu Sese Seko consolidated power in the country. In 1965, the #CIA supported Mobutu’s coup to take over the Republic of the Congo in the name of preventing the spread of communism. #Mobutu became a #dictator who ruled the country until 1997.”
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