I do not know if it's worth repeating that the political situation in Algeria is very different from the other countries of North Africa. When I express my opinion on Algerians living abroad and they cast doubt on my perception, I can hardly believe I aspire to those who have never set foot in the country.
I see with the media. Are easy to locate and many newspapers and radio stations have called or written me to receive a first-hand testimony of what happens in Algeria. I imagine that many of them end up disappointed because they do not tell them anything about popular uprising, killed in the streets, trenches, bullet shots or burning buildings. In return, he said the effects of demonstrations each Saturday, I explain the normality with which it continues to develop civic life, I reiterate the feeling of living under police and tell them in Algeria do not think anything comes to pass short-term because the power is already underpinned by a strong social base.
However, the reality is this. While for many years in Algeria has said the incumbent president was a mere puppet of the military, it is now unthinkable a military coup that would end the scheme. Because in such circumstances is precisely when people would rebel. Now all we have is the contagion effect of the riots in other countries, mainly in Tunisia, for the minority who would be called anti-European and I here define as greater political awareness.
Algerian President is an exceptional politician. From a young age showed a talent that led him to be a reference for those who then called nonaligned countries. After serving some years in exile for corruption in the political rehabilitation has confirmed the stature of a statesman.
joke for those who expect easy to relate their political stature and low physical stature, I make a point and explain that the word size in Castilian, has pad, which is cut, and not to measure.
The Algerian president has managed to give the populist touch to his presidency that is what you wish for a good portion of the population, something that I personally disagree and contrary to the culture and democratic values \u200b\u200bin which I grew, but I'm just an outside observer and, as they say, nobody has been sailing in this burial. An example? Few believe the participation rates of the last re-election, almost plebiscite, Bouteflika, an election previously called "the Bulgarian" and that had to change the country's constitution to be submitted. However, it is accepted as the lesser evil because it is felt Bouteflika that behind it there is the abyss.
That's the only real uncertainty in Algeria. Most people, when he complains, does the government, not the regime. They already had a bad experience does more than twenty years and will accelerate a process that naturally will have to produce. This allows authorities to play with time for social decision making. The slogan now rather than risk giving a rarefied social climate. This is how it has come to lift the state of national emergency, which was the last legal vestige of what they call the black decade.
short, but he died Bouteflika and opened so the succession process raw, Algeria is in my opinion the North African country that has a lower risk of social and political instability.
had yet to offer this comment for all those who ask me how the situation in Algeria. Paraphrasing Don Sabino Fernández Campo, where exactly thirty years ago left a statement for posterity, here in Algeria, the popular uprising against the government, nor is it or is expected.
I wanted to talk about what happened in Libya with the repatriation of the English in general and employees of the English in particular. It is striking that at the airport Barajas was Brufau chairman of Repsol, to receive his people, while for 25 public employees who had managed to be repatriated by the plane was not even the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, the same as saying a day earlier that his ministry was raising the possibility of repatriating the English and was not able to take off a plane from Spain until after midnight and on 23 February.
has focused on the figure of Spain's Ambassador to Libya the situation of helplessness, but it is a mere executor of slogans that are used to live very well, very safe in a mansion paid by all, and lose the reference that not the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but their orders, because the service is who is the English. Arriving at a similar situation, I suppose in Algeria over the same thing happen. After the attack we suffered by Al Qaeda on 11 December 2007, the Ambassador went almost immediately to the scene to see the physical and material damage suffered. From there, I assume that following instructions from above that it believes that denying the evidence of having been the victim of an attack, not the slightest reference. Moreover, I have a document that officially tells me that the Embassy of Spain in Algiers denies the facts, presumably to endorse the theory of collateral damage. I was off work for a long time and am still under medical treatment (I think it very briefly.) But since then, neither the previous nor the current Ambassador asked me even once in the subject, to inquire after the health of someone who has lost work for a service in which he is leading. So occasionally I remember in this blog.
Those of us working in Algiers, we see the real situation and are very quiet. Some more than others, because not everyone has access to that information or processed identically. But we all have family in Spain, in the distance we think that sitting on a powder keg ready to explode. You tell them that the demonstrations are a much smaller scale have been able to live in Bilbao, Vigo, Cadiz and Murcia few weeks ago. And no one thought of leaving Spain. Still, the family, naturally, insists and asks
- What you say is why the Embassy?
- Nothing. The weekends that we do not go home.
- Why if there shots?
- No, I do not say anything. He has not come even once or Ambassador or Attache of the Interior Ministry nor the Consul to say how they see the situation in the country and make a risk assessment. Nor to feel that if one day something happens, we're in good hands.
sure I'm not the only one who, in an emergency, he trusts his skills more than surviving, after their local contacts, after the infrastructure to emergency situations in other developed countries, and fourthly, of our legation useless diplomatic and pull the strings from Madrid.
Security is mostly perception. More to be sure, we feel safe. And those who are in charge do what they should do for that feeling to reach us. As I said before that the Ambassador has ever asked me not for my recovery from the attack against working for the embassy, \u200b\u200bnot because the unknown facts, but because he cares for me beyond the media coverage that might be my comments. And I still know how bad I can not say the things learned from front to finish third.
As so often, I leave the subject without exhausting and yet have a couple of examples rather significant.
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