By Eduardo Garcia Aguilar Like all revolutions, no one saw coming that of Egypt, because his regime seemed immovable, anointed by the Pharaonic gods of fear with the complicated terrain of the great powers, confident that the submission ancestral village.
Live from Liberation Square, humans saw the tenacity of a united people willing surprise to overthrow their tyrants, led by Hosni Mubarak, who came to power 30 years after the death in vivo of Anwar Sadat, shot by a faction of the army, upset that peace with Israel.
Mubarak's regime was a huge stone pyramid that prevented the fall like dominos in all countries of the region into total chaos could trigger a Third World War. This megalith anchored in the deserts and bordered by the waters of the Nile, was a perfect wedge, a China wall capable of supporting one side to the tyrannical regimes in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen, Sudan and Ethiopia, small tyrannies Syrian Lebanese and Jordanian and other authoritarian countries of the Maghreb washed by the waters of the Mediterranean.
And in the middle of the game, the Egyptian menhir was able to reassure Israel and maintain a boil without consequences, suffocated, the Palestinian territories, confined in a precarious de facto absence. And also keep quiet on Iraq and Iran, other semipotencias installed on huge mineral and oil wealth, able to shake the world with their movements and moods.
Mubarak was a sphinx and services needed great powers and their analysts made him a great statesman, who over the decades was not Nick, his hair dyed black and the successive strict operations of his face that made him a sarcophagus mask devoid of gestures at 82 years.
After the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia at least, the world was and is subject to Egypt because of what happens there depends the future of the world in coming decades. Humans helpless witness to the explosion of small successive wars in the Balkans, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, India, Korea, Georgia, Chechnya, which burn off momentarily and then leaving smoldering ashes which marks a major upset planetarium, based on the greed of mineral resources and future control.
The Second World War has been over only 65, but we all know that we live on a tinderbox and a new spark can turn to the horror of those terrible years of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill and Eisenhower. Even in the suburbs of the European cities of that era unearthed bombs that can explode, and the latest was this week at Boulogne, on the side of Paris, when an entire neighborhood was evacuated to proceed to mine the massive explosive device.
And their bombs, they are also harmful ideas alive: the fascist parties in Europe are growing again with its language of hatred towards others and his plan to close borders abroad, the Muslim, Arab, Islamic, that since the attacks September 11 in New York have become the bogeymen of the world, with its maximum clown, the elusive Osama bin Laden, the villain of the Batman movie.
Egypt, the pyramids, accessed by millions of tourists attracted by the colorful pictures and ruins thousands of years of history, the older brother was able to keep out minors. Secular government, Mubarak could control the spectrum of Islamic fanaticism or the explosion of religious wars, but instead prevent the true democratic process and maintain a huge dungeon torture to subdue the rebels.
was the greed of Mubarak, his son and the palace court that led to this sad end to a hero of several wars. Wealth accumulated colossal Egyptian oligarchy sucked all the wealth and leaving nothing for the people, just as do the families of Saudi sheikhs and UAE, the king of Morocco, Kadhafi and Syrian and Jordanian leaders, among others in the area .
But Mubarak and his Western supporters did not have children suddenly the population grew and became an army of young people in a new era, connected with the world, fast, away from feudal customs, open to other languages \u200b\u200band other knowledge and eager for freedom and opportunity. It was they who filled the Plaza de la Liberation, who did wake up mothers, fathers, grandparents, unpublished conference uncles and remained there without wavering until the fall of the tyrant and his court. But now just beginning a new chapter of unexpected dangers to Egypt, Middle East and the world.
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