I have a blog where I usually keep notes, videos and all the sites that are interesting, in order not to lose them altogether and return to them whenever was required. Today, January 29, was doing the usual: Chronic keeping, notes and essays and videos on current events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, but I realized that the images and reflections on these events should be known as widely as possible.
As most know, or should know, much of the chaos that now reigns in the Arab countries began on December 17, 2010 with an act of desperation in Tunisia, where Mohamed Bouazizi, young computer reduced peddler, blew himself up in front of government buildings in your area, after police confiscated his mobile as their only means of subsistence.
That was the spark that triggered protests across the country. Less than a month later, on January 14 after a hundred dead, dozens injured and arrested, the social movement that demanded radical changes in the Tunisian regime managed the impossible: to overthrow the autocrat who had more than 30 years in power: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The images are impressive. Here a photo gallery of The Boston Big Picture : Please see the pictures 4, 14, 16, 25 and 30. They are huge and describe everything.
The spark, that desperate action caused by an adverse economic environment, across the fields and social policies, and protests were accompanied by demands for democracy, freedom and end the authoritarian regime headed by Ben Ali. Even when he fled the country, the protests continued until the majority of his cabinet also resigned.
But otherwise equal or more impressive: the domino effect. The spark that lit the flame in a region. Right now we are seeing, worth the crude comparison, a 1968 Arab world. Thousands of inhabitants of Egypt, Yemen, Jordan have taken the protests Tunisian flag, freedom, democracy, a new system and have taken to the streets to press their governments, to demand changes, say they're sick of their governments and they are there, without fear, ready to face the charges repressive military and police. And that question is fundamental: people who were considered politically apathetic, "have awakened with a vigor and courage worthy of reconocérseles. They have done so without the guidance of a leader explicitly visible, but with the momentum and thrust of thousands of citizens who are articulating political demands and social needs. Satiety, manifested in a thousand voices screaming in unison spontaneous: "Enough."
(In the midst of the most violent protests in years in Egypt, demonstrators take a moment to pray)
The Egypt of Hosni Mubarak, another autocrat with more than 30 years in office, is suffering now social upheaval resulting from this domino effect. And the whole world watches.
I find it interesting to think about the conflicting pressures that Mubarak should be facing right now. On the one hand, Western countries, apparently, pushing for no bloodshed and meet some of the demands for freedom and democracy that claim demonstrators. Other Arab countries in the region, I believe, require Mubarak will not shake his hand and repress their demonstrators, it is he who stained their hands to send a message to other countries, "beware of the protests against government end badly, if not, look at Egypt. "
These two videos I got goosebumps. If you want to see more, click here den.
Or here if you want to see the gallery of the Boston Big Picture on Egypt: incredible and amazing photographs.
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