Archivo etiqueta «Conflicto social»
Por Tahar Ben Jelloun, escritor marroquí. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 13/06/11):
Muamar Gadafi y Bashar el Assad están de acuerdo, al menos, en una cosa: hay que eliminar la primavera; a partir de ahora, el año no tendrá más que tres estaciones.
Por culpa de ellos, el fenómeno denominado la primavera árabe está ensombreciéndose y empezando a parecer un «infierno árabe». Son hombres de la estirpe de Sadam Huséin. Como él, no toleran la oposición y reaccionan con las armas. Como él, se aferran a su sillón, que ocupan sin legitimidad. Como él, se apoyan … Seguir leyendo
Par Tahar Ben Jelloun, écrivain et poète (LE MONDE, 11/06/11):
Ce qui fait l’homme, c’est la lumière” (Victor Hugo). Hamzah Al-Khatib fut un homme à 13 ans. Il est mort emportant avec lui cette part de lumière que donnent le courage et la dignité. Comme l’écrit l’éditorialiste Abou Dib dans le quotidien libanais L’Orient-Le Jour (2 juin 2011), “pour la Syrie, Hamza n’a pas été torturé. On l’a juste un peu tué”.
Arrêté le 29 avril à Deraa pour avoir chanté “A bas le régime !”, il fut torturé, reçut des décharges électriques, fut brûlé … Seguir leyendo
Par Rim Khouni Messaoud, docteur en histoire contemporaine, université Paris-III, spécialiste du Moyen-Orient (LE MONDE, 08/06/11):
On avait assisté au mois de mars à de violents affrontements à Bahreïn et à une vague de répression menée par les troupes saoudiennes arrivées au pays suite à des manifestations pacifiques demandant l’instauration d’une monarchie constitutionnelle. L’Iran n’a pas tardé à durcir le ton et à appeler l’Arabie saoudite à retirer ses troupes et à arrêter son ingérence à Bahreïn. Le pays qui est comme l’Iran, majoritairement chiite est par ailleurs gouverné par une minorité sunnite, a toujours bénéficié du soutien de … Seguir leyendo
By Rami G. Khouri, editor-at-large of The Daily Star and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/06/11):
Egyptians refer to their “revolution” that overthrew the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak last February, and they revel in its continuing afterglow, appreciating how significant and satisfying was their deed.
The post-revolution phase now underway is a more difficult challenge than the weeks of street demonstrations that ousted Mubarak. Everyone in Egypt asks every day: Did the revolution really change much beyond removing the top … Seguir leyendo
By Yasir Abdel Baqi, a writer. This article was translated by Robin Moger from the Arabic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/06/11):
I went to Sana, the capital, to wander Tahrir Square. Protesters had set up a sea of tents, big and small, red and yellow, and as I entered I saw a sign: “Welcome to the square kilometer of freedom.”
Everyone I passed, women, men and children, gave the victory sign and shouted, “Get out!” They weren’t yelling at me, but at President Ali Abdullah Saleh. A few days later, he would in fact get out; on Saturday, … Seguir leyendo
By Nadia al-Kokabany, a writer and a professor of architecture at the University of Sana. This article was translated by Nathaniel A. Miller from the Arabic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/06/11):
The shelling of Yemen’s presidential palace last Friday represented the end of the road for President Ali Abdullah Saleh — a decisive conclusion he had never expected, or even considered, when the youth revolt erupted four months ago.
Yemen’s tribal society, its problems with Al Qaeda, its struggle with separatist movements, and its rate of gun ownership, one of the world’s highest, should have led him to react … Seguir leyendo
Por Carlos Echeverría Jesús, profesor contratado doctor en Relaciones Internacionales de la UNED (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 03/06/11):
Tema: El régimen sirio ha recurrido a las Fuerzas Armadas y de Seguridad para prevenir, contener y reprimir las revueltas pacíficas que, a pesar de la violencia empleada, se han ido extendiendo en número, geografía y reivindicaciones por toda Siria desde marzo de 2011.
Resumen: El 18 de marzo se iniciaban las revueltas en Siria, un mes después de la salida del poder de Hosni Mubarak en Egipto y dos meses después de la huída de Zine El Abidine Ben Alí de … Seguir leyendo
By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/06/11):
The dramatic developments across North Africa and the Middle East remind me of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. From Tunis to Cairo to Benghazi, people overcame fear to embrace freedom. Some governments in the region have taken important steps to meet the rightful demands of their citizens. Others realized their time was up and moved aside. But I was appalled to see that in some countries, and especially in Libya, the call for freedom and dignity has … Seguir leyendo
Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel laureate in economics, is the founding director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. This article first appeared in Le Monde (Project Syndicate, 31/05/11):
The young protesters of the Jasmine Revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, many of them university graduates, overthrew the old regime because it impeded or blocked them from careers that would offer engaging work and the chance for personal growth. The protesters did not demand more creature comforts or better infrastructure; they demanded opportunities to make something of themselves.
These young Arabs were being stymied in two ways. … Seguir leyendo
Por Christopher R. Hill, ex Secretario de Estado Adjunto de los Estados Unidos para el Asia Oriental. Fue embajador de los EE.UU. en Iraq, Corea del Sur, Macedonia y Polonia, enviado especial de los EE.UU. para Kosovo, negociador de los acuerdos de paz de Dayton y jefe de la delegación de los EE.UU. para las negociaciones con Corea del Norte en el período 2005-2009. Ahora es decano de la Escuela Korbel de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Denver. Traducido del inglés por Carlos Manzano (Project Syndicate, 30/05/11):
La intención del discurso del Presidente Barack Obama sobre los actuales … Seguir leyendo
By Catherine Ashton, high representative for foreign affairs and security policy of the European Union (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/05/11):
The birth of a democracy is beautiful, but it isn’t always pretty. Muammar el-Qaddafi starved Benghazi of money, so it was a drab city even before the current uprising. Now the clutter of revolution makes it look even more disheveled. But just as the drabness fed defiance, so the clutter of old flags, homemade banners and crumpled leaflets speak of great hope.
I had come to Benghazi to open the first European Union office … Seguir leyendo
THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/05/11:
Dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim returned to Egypt recently from exile. The Post’s Lally Weymouth talked with him in Cairo. Excerpts:
Q. How many years have you been out of the country?
A. Four years.
You weren’t allowed to come back to Egypt or else you would have been arrested?
Yes, there were about 28 cases against me [brought by the Mubarak regime]. This time when I landed, there were thousands of people waiting for me. I have dominated the news. . . . This bodes ill for the future of democracy in this country.
Because the other liberal … Seguir leyendo
By Ibrahim Kalin, senior adviser to the prime minister of Turkey (Project Syndicate, 23/05/11):
As the Arab Spring enters its fourth month, it faces challenges but also presents opportunities. Despite setbacks in Libya, Yemen, and Syria, the democratic wave has already begun to change the Middle East’s political landscape.
The national reconciliation agreement in Palestine between Fatah and Hamas, signed in Egypt on May 3, is one of the major results of this sea change. Other substantial developments are certain to follow – and Turkey stands to gain from them. Indeed, the Arab Spring strengthens rather than weakens Turkey’s … Seguir leyendo
Par Nora Benkorich, historienne (LE MONDE, 23/05/11):
En 1982 à Hama, la pilule du complot ne fut pas difficile à faire passer. Le sectarisme affiché de l’Aile combattante et sa ligne politique dure furent du pain bénit pour le régime, qui n’avait plus qu’à monter en épingle les faits et la force numérique du mouvement pour inquiéter les Syriens. Aujourd’hui, si la contestation parvient à se développer géographiquement à partir de Deraa et à dépasser ses cadres générationnels et sociaux d’origine, c’est avant tout parce que de nombreux Syriens se reconnaissent dans ses mots d’ordre – liberté, dignité, transparence, … Seguir leyendo
Por José María Carrascal, periodista (ABC, 18/05/11):
Hemos vuelto a equivocarnos. Estábamos convencidos de que en el mundo musulmán no había revoluciones por tener el Corán respuesta a todos los problemas de este mundo y del que viene. Sus «revoluciones» eran en realidad contrarrevoluciones, contrarreformas, retornos a la pureza del islam. Las últimas de ellas: la del ayatolá Jomeini, para expurgar Irán del occidentalismo del Sha, y la de los talibanes, para acabar con el comunismo ateo en Afganistán. Así que solo nos preocupó que ayatolás o talibanes pudieran alcanzar el poder y apoyábamos cualquier régimen que lo impidiese, … Seguir leyendo