'VE POSTED THIS ARTICLE ON 5 FEBRUARY 2011 DAY
be worth to step back and look for lessons that today the social movements occur in the Middle East. If one of the notes from a regional perspective evoke the way they were falling one after the other communist regimes of Eastern Europe in the 80, or even the military regimes in South America. All these brutal regimes that inflicted by a long period immeasurable suffering to their people, they seemed indestructible.
His downfall was the result of a combination of attrition and government insensitivity, impaired depth in the lives of people, rampant corruption, international pressure and to a large extent, splits between the ruling elites. Despite the strength of their societies was clear that there was very dysfunctional societies have gradually been cohesion and opposition elites bit immature and able to govern. No wonder then that the political staff of the old regime (in almost all of Eastern Europe) or political parties of the democratic period prior (in America) have filled the vacuum of governance regimes falling dictatorial.
Against this background of transitions in other regions can get some lessons from the demonstrations in the Arab world.
dictatorship or authoritarianism is tolerated by the majority of the population, provided the dissidents will be imprisoned, exiled or killed, until it is combined with impunity, lack of opportunities, shortages and cynicism. There is intriguing that one of the major contributions of wiki-leaks in Tunisia was a U.S. embassy report describing a dinner hosted by the dictator's daughter and her husband where the ice cream dessert that was served had been brought by plane from French tourist resort.
A regime authoritarian or dictatorial falls when the military decides that it is not worth embarking on a widespread crackdown. Rachid Ammar General of the Tunisian army chief refused to open fire on protesters and thereby precipitated the fall of the dictator.
No nation is genetically or culturally alien to the democratic aspirations. The classic argument that some developed countries have advocated dictatorship as the wobble now was the immaturity of people who could easily fall prey to communists in the past or now Islamic fundamentalists.
The heroism actors almost always unexpected. A 26 year old brother of nine and in a household headed by a mother abandoned, injured literally blows himself up and turns Tunisian prairie fire. An organized group of young surfers in the Egyptian student movement becomes the organizing center of the recent demonstrations. I n all cases Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and radio have been mechanisms of transmission and multiplication of calls to mobilization.
In Egypt the most populous country in the Arab world and the key in the Middle East plays the fate of this region. The demonstrations have been exemplary gaining more followers. The elites agree on the need to end the Mubarak regime, but differ in the time now or in several months. The military brass swing from side to side, tolerating aggression or protecting civilians on Wednesday, the protesters on Friday. Sell \u200b\u200bexpensive to support.
But if we take a broader perspective, these demonstrations reminiscent of another historical era. The axial 1968. If then the axis of the youth movement was a rebellion against the old ways, a fulcrum is anger against the terrible conditions experienced by young people. If then the democratic contagion was through music and culture, now is also in telecommunications.
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