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Web: www.chiadopublishing.com | www.chiadoglobal.com Title: Cabinda: Obama's Challenges in Africa Author: Bartolomeu Capita Graphic Design Ps_Design – Departamento Gráfico Printed and Bound by: Chiado Print ISBN: 978-989-51-0719-3 Legal Deposit n.º 364003/13 Bartolomeu Capita CABINDA: OBAMA'S CHALLENGES IN AFRICA Chiado Publishing Contents Acknowledgements. 11 Introduction . 13 I – President Obama’s Obstacles and Challenges in Africa . 23 1. Does President Obama’s Re-election allow to Hope for the Best? . 26 1.1. What to Expect from President Obama Administration? . 32 1.2. President Obama’s Desire to Advance the Cause of Change . 39 1.3. The European Union’s Role in Africa’s Resistance to Change . 44 1.4. The Urgent Need to Overcome the Resistance to Change . 52 1.5. President Obama and US International Legal Obligations . 56 1.6. The Real Obstruction to President Obama in Africa . 67 1.7. Angola’s “Strongman” is a European Union Servant . 94 1.8. Why is EU distracting International Attention from the Congo? . 110 II – President Obama between Western and Eastern Imperialists . 125 1. Capitalist Imperialism is as harmful as Progressive Imperialism. 134 1.1. Progressives Coerced Africans into Denying Cabinda Justice . 141 1.2. Moscow’s Coercion on African and Eastern European Allies. 160 1.3. African Leaders’ Simplistic Approach to World Affairs. 171 1.4. Neto was trusted neither by USSR nor by African Leaders . 179 III – Cabinda: What is Left of the United Nations?205 1. The Symbol of the United Nations Ideal of Universal Peace. 208 2. Angola’s Lack of Legal Title over the Territory of Cabinda. 214 2.1. The Legal Status of Cabinda as a Protected State216 2.2. Cabinda’s Legal and Political Sovereignty . 218 2.3. Angola’s Attempt to Wipe out Cabinda Nationality . 225 3. The Political Assault on Cabinda in UN Resolution 1542 (XV). 236 3.1. Non-Involvement of Portugal in the Act of Aggression . 239 3.2. Compliance of Portugal with Chapter XI of the UN Charter . 243 3.3. Cabinda within the Scope of Chapter XI of the Charter . 246 4. Ploys to Perpetuate Angola’s Colonial Rule over Cabinda. 248 4.1. Roguery in Portraying Cabinda as an Angolan Ethnic Minority . 250 4.2. Regional Integration as Trickery to erase Cabinda’s Right . 254 4.3. Corruption and Falsehood meant to wipe out Cabinda. 256 5. US Selective Policy undermines the United Nations . 266 6. Angola’s Serious Crimes of International Concern in Cabinda. 274 6.1. Victims of President Dos Santos’ Shocking Atrocities . 278 IV – China in Africa Being Steered Into a Trap . 285 1. The West and the Chinese Presence in Africa . 286 1.1. How did China enter Europe’s “Private Domain”? . 291 1.2. China on the Geopolitical Chessboard between USA and USSR . 306 1.3. What America’s Help to Portugal in 1974/75 would have averted . 315 1.4. China’s Path in Africa is as Perilous as USSR’s during the Cold War . 325 1.5. Can China Champion Africa’s Right to Development? . 325 V – The Hugest Genocide Ever Under Way in Africa . 345 1. The Genocide in Delaying/Denying Cabinda Justice. 365 2. Greed and Imperialistic Reasons as Determining Factors . 385 2.1. Portugal’s Discoveries and the European Crises of the 14th Century . 386 2.2. European Bankers’ Greed as root cause of Portugal’s Discoveries . 388 3. Western Wars under way for a New Partition of Africa . 392 3.1. Actual «Lies» and Wars for a New Partition of Africa . 394 3.2. European Conflicts in Africa cannot help leading to WWIII. 411 3.2.1. Germany’s Quest for a Noteworthy Sphere of Influence in Africa . 437 3.2.2. West likely to use Blacks as cannon fodder in Wars on Asians. 456 VI – The MPLA Distinctive Nature. 473 1. The MPLA as Widely Known. 473 2. MPLA Independence War and the Crucifixion of Viriato da Cruz . 477 2.1. MPLA proves to be a Revisionist Clique . 480 2.2. What disturbed Agostinho Neto’s balance of mind? . 489 2.3. MPLA as a Corrupt and Neo-Colonialists’ Tool 501 2.4. Analyzing Che, Hugo, Sozinho and Holden’s remarks . 508 3. Angola’s Civil War and the Crucifixion of Nito Alves . 513 3.1. MPLA: A National Organization with an Ideology of its own!. 524 3.2. The Roots of Lúcio Lara and the MPLA own Ideology . 543 3.3. Factors likely to have led France to make a tool of Lúcio Lara. 551 3.4. Who is « Proudhon » Whose Evil Ideas Reign over Angola?. 566 4. Angola and the Nakedness of the MPLA devilish Nature . 565 VII – Psychological Reparation as a Sine Qua Non for Cabinda and Africa . 579 1. Reparation as Integration into African Society and Psychology . 585 2. The Role of Communication in our Psychological Reparation. 595 3. Black People’s Specific Nature as a Psychological Phenomenon . 605 4. The Granting of African Citizenship to African- Americans. 610 5. The Role of Christianity in our Psychological Reparation. 617 6. Epilogue: our expectations in writing this book. 631 Pictures635 Bibliography . 645 Note about the Author. 653 Acknowledgements The author is indebted to many people who have, through their valued help and assistance on many occasions, contributed to the concept of this book. To list them all here would cover too many pages. I wish however to thank the late Dr. José Pinheiro da Silva (Luso-Cabindan) who, while at the Free University of Lisbon (Universidade Livre de Lisboa) more than ten years ago, through his teachings, interviews, writings and his immense and rich private library, gave me many insights into the historical forces at work inside Portugal and Angola. Many Portuguese scholars, active and retired diplomats, have given advice; some have provided data and also source material otherwise difficult to obtain. I cannot help mentioning, among them, the memorable Dr. Mascarenhas Barreto. Since the historical and legal- political aspects of the prevailing difference between Cabinda and Angola in international scenario appear to be of utmost importance, I cannot help being grateful to the honest and fair-minded heir to Portuguese throne, in this instance H.R.H. Dom Duarte Pio, The Duke of Braganza, who has worked long and hard on behalf of then-oppressed people of East-Timor, and who is rightly and tirelessly stating that there is a legitimate case for the independence of Cabinda. I cannot help mentioning my spiritual father, the memorable Cabindan Roman Catholic 11 BARTOLOMEU CAPITA bishop, His Excellency D. Paulino Fernandes Madeca, murdered by President Dos Santos’ dictatorship in January 2008, whose main encouraging motto was: «Faith is the refusal to give up». And for the innumerable acts of generosity, of hospitality and of friendliness I have received, I am particularly indebted to H.E. Ms. Flaminia Giovanelli at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Vatican); the French Roman Catholic priest, Father Emmanuel Lebrun, at Communauté Chrétienne des Africains; the French Social Worker, Mrs. Martine Dang Tiep, at CASP (Centre d’Action Sociale Protestant); the memorable French citizen COLUCHE (Resto du Coeur); the Swiss French Reformed Church (Eglise Française Réformée); the Old Catholic Parish of Berne (Christkatholischen Kirche Bern); and all of those affectionate friends in Germany (Berlin), in the United Kingdom, in Spain, in Switzerland, in the United States, in the Netherlands, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in South Africa, in Ghana, in Brazil, in South Korea, in the Russian Federation, in Japan, in Ecuador, and in the Philippines who have accompanied, wittingly or unwittingly the writing of this book over many years. While I similarly thank each one of the charitable readers of this book for contributing to the spread of its content, I make myself clear that the responsibility for what I offer the reader in terms of information and judgment is, without a doubt, entirely mine. Bartolomeu Capita Berne (Switzerland), April 2013 12 Introduction “Since Africa is the least understood continent, it is also the one most easily ignored and therefore vulnerable to plunder.” John Perkins, The Secret History of the American Empire Since the belligerent occupation.