[1] He was arrested after copies of the CPDS paper La Verdad, which he and Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé wanted sent to Spain, were intercepted at the airport in Malabo in February 1992.
[2] In December 1994, at the Constitutive Congress of the CPDS, held in Bata, Plácido Micó Abogo was chosen as secretary-general.
[1] Plácido Micó Abogo was the only CPDS candidate to win a seat in the Chamber of People's Representatives in the 1999 parliamentary election.
[4] In June 2002, he was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison;[5] however, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo pardoned him in August 2003.
Micó Abogo promptly denounced the move, arguing that "with such little time, it will be impossible to properly organise a political campaign in a country that lacks everything".