Plácido Micó Abogo

Plácido Micó Abogo (born 11 July 1963) is an Equatoguinean politician. He was Secretary-General of the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), an opposition political party in Equatorial Guinea, from 1994 to 2013.

Biography Micó Abogo was a founding member of the CPDS and was Secretary of Administration and Finance of the CPDS Provisional Executive Committee during the early 1990s.

In December 1994, at the Constitutive Congress of the CPDS, held in Bata, Plácido Micó Abogo was chosen as secretary-general. He was re-elected to that post at the party's Second National Congress in February 2001 and charged in connection with a 1997 coup plot. In June 2002, he was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison; however, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo pardoned him in August 2003.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, published on 11 July 2008, he was strongly critical of the political situation in Equatorial Guinea, saying that "the opposition has no political presence. There are no unions or professional associations. There is no media that escapes the government's control", and he condemned the parliamentary election held in May as severely "violent and manipulated". He accused the United States of being complicit in the rule of President Obiang for the sake of its oil interests. Despite his criticism, he stood as a candidate in the election.