These times we live in, uncertain and exciting, we have become witnesses of emergency events which future generations will study in the history books.
The immolation of a young man desperate lit the spark that has broken down and corrupt dictatorships masquerading as democracies, has highlighted the immense cynicism of the Western world obsessed with the realpolitik. Never mind that Ben Ali Mubarak or looted plunging its people into misery, enough that they were our allies, and if anyone dared to question the man threatened to sack: Islamists coming! And everything was a few channels that seemed unchangeable.
In my student days I was fortunate to have an old, wise and somewhat eccentric professor who taught us that revolutions are not coincidental that there is always behind ideologues who dare to formulate new principles that society is yours until it explodes revolt.
course he had not lived in a globalized world and in the era of information highways. No idea that, thanks to the Internet, could know at the moment what is happening in the antipodes.
blogs and social networks have facilitated the spread of ideas in a very short period of time. This, coupled with endemic poverty and discontent of an oppressed society, have done the rest. The revolutions are brewing in cyberspace and demonstrations are held in Facebook or via mobile phones.
Tunisian and Egyptian revolts, experts say, will have a domino effect that will cause the fall of other leaders and that will spread like wildfire throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Perhaps they are right, yesterday we saw sparks in Algeria timid. Rumor In Morocco, the Makhzen is so restless that it has hired an army of computer experts to neutralize cyber.
assail me ambivalent feelings about these two countries, I hope that comes immediately to Morocco but I fear what might happen in Algeria since my children are there, the weakest and most vulnerable in this chain: a state in exile within a state guest for all dependent.
Have they learned their lesson our politicians? Yesterday on TV the defense minister intoned the "mea culpa", said to have been wrong about the southern Mediterranean neighbors, who had been too cautious and benevolent.
Yet another illustrious minister says that what happened in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco will never happen, because the divine king and democratic reforms started long ago and Bono is visiting the bloody Equatorial Guinea Obiang. He says there are more things that unite us than divide us.
Yesterday I had a friend who, in 1975, a Saharawi delegation visited Guinea and the manager was careful guidance and now president. They gave him a thousand dollars to the change, the kind of picked it up and see that today is the day that has yet to find the office Exchange because it did not again see the white-fronted.
I hope these impulses are not kleptomaniacs which unite us but, apparently seen by our Spain, do not know what to think.
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