Archivo etiqueta «Yemen»
By Tawakkol Karman, a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel peace prize who chairs Women Journalists Without Chains. She is a human rights activist and leader of the popular revolution movement in Yemen (THE GUARDIAN, 01/11/11):
We in Yemen are no less thirsty for freedom and dignity than our brothers and sisters in Tunis. After the fall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, our own vigils took a new direction when thousands of young people went on to the streets. They reached their climax with the fall of the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, when millions of Yemenis called … Seguir leyendo
By Carrie Giardino, vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, in 2009 and is director of strategic initiatives for IDS International (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 03/10/11):
Yemen is a sanctuary for al Qaeda terrorists that is barreling into civil war and instability. Add into this the fact that tens of thousands of Yemenis hold U.S. passports, and Yemen emerges as the perfect habitat for a new al Qaeda threat: the American terrorist.
Three high-profile terrorists with U.S. citizenship have been killed in Yemen. Kamal Derwish, also known as Ahmed Hijazi, was killed in Yemen in 2002 while traveling … Seguir leyendo
By Ginny Hill, an associate fellow at Chatham House, where she runs the Yemen Forum (THE GUARDIAN, 20/09/11):
On Monday, when the UN envoy Jamal Benomar and Abdullatif al-Zayani of the Gulf Co-operation Council flew into Yemen, they hoped for agreement on a transition plan that would see President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down after 33 years in power. Instead they found themselves in the middle of an urban battlefield, trying to negotiate an immediate ceasefire between rival elite families.
Negotiations over the timing of elections have gone back and forth between the ruling party and the opposition coalition … Seguir leyendo
Por Gustavo de Arístegui, diputado y portavoz de AAEE del PP en el Congreso. Autor del libro de próxima aparición de igual título que el artículo (EL MUNDO, 01/09/11):
Pase lo que pase con Gadafi, su esperpéntico régimen es ya historia. Lo que ocurra ahora en Libia es una nueva página ante la que debemos estar vigilantes. Las primaveras árabes, que son más una inmensa encrucijada que otra cosa, son tan heterogéneas como incierto es su futuro y resultados. El exceso de optimismo y el análisis superficial en la distancia, ha caracterizado no pocas posiciones que hemos podido escuchar … Seguir leyendo
By Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, the foreign minister of Yemen (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 14/07/11):
The present crisis in Yemen is serious indeed, but its origins have been widely misunderstood regionally and internationally. Ours is not a crisis of democracy, as it is so often portrayed, even though some of the government’s political opponents have ruthlessly exploited it to further their own ends. The truth is that the crisis, at its heart, is one of poverty, dependency and development.
Yemen is one of the world’s poorest countries. It has limited but declining oil revenues, few other natural resources and a growing … Seguir leyendo
By Tawakkol Karman, a leader of Yemen’s democratic youth movement and the founder of Women Journalists Without Chains. This article was translated by Garrett Davidson from the Arabic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/06/11):
After more than five months of continuous protests, I stand today in Change Square with thousands of young people united by a lofty dream. I have spent days and nights camped out in tents with fellow protesters; I have led demonstrations in the streets facing the threat of mortars, missiles and gunfire; I have struggled to build a movement for democratic change — all while caring … Seguir leyendo
By Wasim Alqershi, a member of the organisational committee of the people’s youth revolution in Yemen and a former president of the Yemeni student union (THE GUARDIAN, 11/06/11):
Yemen’s popular youth revolution faced a unique set of circumstances among the contemporary revolutions of the Arab spring: a despotic regime; armed tribes; and an al-Qaida presence under the official auspices of the regime. But faced with all this, the youth insisted on achieving a comprehensive transformation by peaceful means. And millions of Yemenis responded to this invitation, descending on protest squares across the country.
The challenge of inviting the … 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
By Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 06/06/11):
For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ways.
First, even before the current political upheaval began there on Jan. 15, violence out of Yemen already impinged on Westerners. As President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s weak government controlled only a small part of the country, violence had emerged both near to Yemen, such as attacks on American and French ships, and distant from it, like Anwar … Seguir leyendo
By Khaled Fattah, an expert on state-tribe relations in Yemen (THE GUARDIAN, 31/05/11):
Since the beginning of Yemen’s popular uprising in February, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been putting into practice his skilful art of “dancing on the heads of snakes”.
On the domestic front, he first offered the protesters a number of concessions, but then withdrew them again. He then applied police and military repression as well as exploiting the deep fissures in Yemeni society. For the regional and international audience, Saleh waved his two warning cards: al-Qaida and civil war.
Strategically located at the intersection of … Seguir leyendo
By Wasim Alqershi, a member of the organisational committee of the people’s youth revolution in Yemen, and a former president of the Yemeni student union (THE GUARDIAN, 12/05/11):
Yemen is a fertile land with beaches that stretch for more than 1,700km. It is also a country in which more than 10 million people are threatened by starvation, where thousands spend their lives sneaking into neighbouring countries in search of better opportunities, and where children are violated in forced labour markets. In an age of extraordinary medical advances, the greatest hope of 24 million Yemenis is that their children are not crippled … Seguir leyendo
By Nadya Khalife, the Middle East North Africa researcher in the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch (THE GUARDIAN, 07/05/11):
“Security forces in civilian clothes have threatened me with the jambiyya, not just during demonstrations, but everywhere I go,” the protest leader and journalist Tawakkol Karman told me, describing the traditional dagger that Yemeni men wear strapped to their waists.
In the past, any mention of Yemen’s women in the news media has usually been about two issues, neither of them positive. The first is that they are more likely than most women in the Middle East … Seguir leyendo
Por Fernando Reinares, investigador principal de Terrorismo Internacional en el Real Instituto Elcano y, entre abril y julio de 2011, Public Policy Scholar en el Woodrow Wilson Center de Washington (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 29/04/11):
Tema: No hay que exagerar la realidad del terrorismo yihadista en Yemen, ni tampoco minimizarla, para entender por qué al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga, con un minoritario pero significativo apoyo popular entre los yemeníes, se estaría beneficiando de la situación por la que atraviesa el país.
Resumen: Al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga (AQPA) ha pasado de recomponerse y desarrollar una notable campaña de atentados en … Seguir leyendo
By Isa Blumi, an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University, a fellow at the Center for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig and the author of Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/04/11):
To Yemenis, violence in the streets and threats of state collapse are nothing new. Despite reports portraying the protests in Yemen as something of a revolution, democratic change has little possibility of success. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is essentially a figurehead; whether he stays or goes, the regime of technocrats and thugs he represents is unlikely … Seguir leyendo