It took years before party barons realized that he had turned the national oil company, Sonangol, into his private domain, controlled the means of coercion and amassed considerable discretionary power. A quiet and apparently middling MPLA official, he was chosen as a safe pair of hands after the premature death of Angola’s first president. They are not going to go quietly into the night.ĭos Santos’s rise followed the usual path of the greatly underestimated. His coterie has built up globalized interests whose ultimate guarantor is their control over Africa’s third largest economy. But the 73-year-old Dos Santos is a resilient player. Public discontent caused by Angola’s economic crisis and the fact that he mentioned a date for his departure suggest he may mean what he says. He did not give clues as to whether he would still head the ruling MPLA’s list for the 2017 elections nor did he name his successor. José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s president since 1979 and constitutionally allowed to stay in power until 2022, made the surprise announcement on Friday that he would leave “active political life” in 2018. Seething and wild with seditious fury, he fired up Trump’s angry mob.In the usually predictable world of African presidents-for-life, it doesn’t get more exciting than this. In response to a video that emerged of the speech by Ted Cruz, political activist Stephanie Kennedy, said: “24 hours before the insurrection at the U.S. “We will defend liberty into the future, and we are going to win.” Mr Cruz said: “I stand shoulder to shoulder with you, as we defend the United States of America, as we defend our constitution, as we defend our freedom, and we will not go quietly into the night. There have been calls for Senator Cruz to resign after he cast doubt on the election result and opposed its certification, and he has been accused of “inciting” the riot, which left several people dead. Mr Biden has condemned the pro-Trump rioters as “insurrectionists”. The rioters attacked the seat of US legislative government in an attempt to overturn the result of the presidential election, where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, on the basis of unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. Senator Ted Cruz paraphrased the words of Dylan Thomas when told the angry mob “we will not go quietly into the night”, 24 hours before they stormed the US Congress in Washington DC. A US Senator has quoted a Welsh poet while he “incited” the Trump Capitol Hill rioters.

We will not go quietly into the night