Guinea-Bissau's military just installed General Horta Inta-a as their new junta boss after booting out President Umaro Sissoco Embaló following a sketchy election where both candidates claimed they won. The deposed leader bounced to Senegal on a government-chartered flight while the army banned all protests and locked down the capital. Inta-a used to be the army chief of staff and was tight with Embaló before flipping on him.
The opposition thinks Embaló faked the whole coup to dodge an election loss, but the military said they grabbed power because politicians were trying to rig results with help from some drug kingpin. ECOWAS and the African Union are both losing their minds over this and demanding that everyone get released. Guinea-Bissau has been getting wrecked by coups since its independence from Portugal, and experts say the drug trafficking trade between Latin America and Europe keeps fueling these government collapses.
The opposition thinks Embaló faked the whole coup to dodge an election loss, but the military said they grabbed power because politicians were trying to rig results with help from some drug kingpin. ECOWAS and the African Union are both losing their minds over this and demanding that everyone get released. Guinea-Bissau has been getting wrecked by coups since its independence from Portugal, and experts say the drug trafficking trade between Latin America and Europe keeps fueling these government collapses.
