Following his repeated purges and unpredictable policies, the country's government began to fall apart.

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Macias, 51 years old, dressed in a high-necked floral dress and cardigan, was friendly but circumspect when we met at a publishing house in Richmond upon Thames to discuss her memoir, Black Girl from Pyongyang.Though readers can draw their own conclusions, she’s certainly right to point out that it was in the interests of neither her father’s deposers nor the ousted Spanish colonists to defend his honour.

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He became assistant interpreter, [18] mayor of Mongomo, [9] minister of public works, and finally deputy president of the Governing Council within a single year in the 1960s after Spanish Guinea was transformed from a colony to a province of Spain.I want to give a different perspective on the places I have left,” Monica said when I met her in Soho, London, where she now lives, impeccable in her white flowered dress and pearl earrings. Kim Il-sung would become a father figure to Monica, overseeing her life and education for the rest of her childhood. When there was a trial at all, dissidents faced Kangaroo courts organized by the JMM militia, [59] as almost all judges in the country fled or were jailed during Macías Nguema's rule. She is given a choice at the end of her studies to stay in North Korea where she now has many friends and is comfortable or go and see a world that she knows nothing about.