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Goodbye 2013 2013, enquistan wars and new lifestyles that take quite Extramural Tweet The 2013 leaves entrenched conflicts such as Syria and Iraq, new war scenarios that threaten to move and set the agenda 2014, such as the Central African Republic and Mali, the generalization of drones, the worst year of Obama, shielding power against the rising public discontent and a setback for women's rights and LGBT groups Extramural . eng | Writing Outside the Walls | 31/12/2013 at 07:56
In 2013 farewell leaving a more turbulent. S'eternitzen conflicts, ll such as Syria and Iraq, countries on the brink of bankruptcy, such as Libya, the civil war, South Sudan, or genocide, as the Central African Republic. An economic crisis that seems endless, especially in Europe, where the far right back in strength.
The illusion ll of the Arab Spring runs definitely in Egypt. South Africa ll operates the memory of Mandela. ll Latin tries to fill the void left by Hugo Chavez. Rafael Correa become the new leader of the "socialism of the XXI century" while Brazil finds that major sporting events ll are not a guarantee of "social peace."
2013 leaves a world leadership questioned. The United States, unable to impose a solution on the Syrian conflict, see his image badly damaged with the revelation of the NSA's massive spying. Despite the historic agreement with Iran or the slight improvement of the economy in which it will be remembered for "shutdown" Republican or the first bankruptcy of a city.
Finally, in 2013 leaves a world adrift without a clear global leadership or solid understanding mechanisms. A world where unequal power shielded against expected rising citizen discontent, but also on post-capitalist alternatives begin to take shape. Therefore, the team of Extramural ll have prepared a short summary of the main events that have marked the international news this year that just ended, and a reminder of those tragedies, conflicts and realities often forgotten that Milo shook the lives of people around the world. Hope you enjoy.
On January 10, the collapse of the small town of Konno turn all alarms. It is the strategic key to control traffic between ll northern and southern Mali. A year ago the Tuareg uprising demanding the independence of the territory they call Azawad, ll tired of government neglect Bamako. ll Help them weapons and mercenaries who come to participate in the Libyan war. The Islamists, however, are slow to regain the territories "liberated" their own benefit. Mali is in danger of becoming a new Somalia next to Niger, where France draws two-thirds of the uranium consumed their nuclear power plants.
Within days, Francois Hollande ll has authorized the UN to intervene militarily in the country. Within weeks, the rebels are cornered. An agreement with the Tuareg allows presidential elections. The winner, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, is a veteran politician educated at one of the best high schools in Paris. Hollande said that "the war is already won" the day of the French national holiday, during ll military march on the Champs Elysees.
Peace, however, is still very fragile. November 2, RFI journalists are abducted and murdered. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed the attack justifying ll it as a revenge for the intervention. Paris is now considering increasing the amount of which maintains 3,000 troops in Mali.
North Korea carried ll out on 12 February, the largest nuclear test in history. Causes an earthquake of 5 degrees on the Richter scale and a more intense diplomatic level. United Nations approved a new round of sanctions, while the United States began joint military maneuvers with South Korea, using a total of 13,000.
Some analysts believe that this is, again, ll a strategy of the North Korean regime to remove any economic benefits of the nuclear threat. Others see a move to assure American military presence in the region. The escalation of provocations reaches a critical point on March 11, when Pyongyang announced that cancels the armistice of 1953. The government ordered the closure of the Kaesong complex, an industrial complex located near the border with the south, the only vestige of cooperation ll between the two countries.
Peace talks do not begin until the South it loosens 7.3 billion in humanitarian aid. Finally, in September reopens Kaesong. The media speculate ll about whether this is a maneuver of the new president, Kim Jong-one to take the strong position, while South Korea also obvious premiere leader. On 25 February took possession in Seoul ParkGeu