{"id":11978,"date":"2015-01-14T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2015-01-14T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T05:22:55","slug":"the-economics-of-failing-to-overthrow-gambias-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-failing-to-overthrow-gambias-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Failing To Overthrow Gambia\u2019s Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011415_0517_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the world was preparing to ring in 2014, a gang of intrepid revolutionaries set out to overthrow Gambia&#8217;s dictator. They failed. Javier Blas wrote about how much it cost:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group trying to launch the coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat consisted of just 20 people.<\/li>\n<li>The budget for the operations was a measly $220,798.<\/li>\n<li>This included $2,000 for each of two sniper rifles, and a $4,000 expense account for each of the revolutionaries.<\/li>\n<li>The operation was bankrolled by an American of Gambian descent who made his fortune in Texas. In return for his investment he was expected to be installed as President.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t the first time a few brave souls have tried to take a state. In 2004 the son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was given a suspended sentence for trying to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.<\/li>\n<li>A French soldier launched four coup attempts in the Comoros Island between 1975 and 1995. A couple were even successful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the attempt, details of the master plan, the group&#8217;s motives, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/34cb103a-95d5-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/34cb103a-95d5-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/01\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-overthrow-the-government-of-gambia.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world was preparing to ring in 2014, a gang of intrepid revolutionaries set out to overthrow Gambia&#8217;s dictator. They failed. Javier Blas wrote about how much it cost: The group trying to launch the coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat consisted of just 20 people. The budget for the operations was a measly $220,798. This included $2,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011415_0517_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}