Equatorial Guinea Obiang Mangue, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces. The tension may be rooted in a power shift arising from the dramatic increase in oil production which has occurred since 1997. In 2004 a plane load of suspected mercenaries was intercepted in Zimbabwe while allegedly on the way to overthrow Obiang. A November 2004 report named Mark Thatcher as a financial backer of the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt organized by Simon Mann. Various accounts also named the United Kingdom's MI6, the United States' CIA, and Spain as tacit supporters of the coup attempt. Nevertheless,
Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea en la nieve" by Luz Gabás, as well as its 2015 film adaptation "Palm Trees in the Snow", are set in the 1950s and 1960s colonial Spanish Guinea and 2000's Equatorial Guinea. Fiction set in Equatorial Guinea There are several works of fiction set in Equatorial Guinea. Fernando Po, now Bioko, is featured prominently in the 1975 science fiction work "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. The island (and, in turn, the country) experience a series of coups in the story which lead the world to the verge of nuclear war. The story also hypothesizes that