The need to make amends for an unforgivable omission by the Spanish Administration has added to a list of dangers for the Polisario Front. Until now, its role as the Sahrawi people’s liberation movement has never been disputed, but now they have been downgraded to no more than a vulgar terrorist group. Download PDF Descargar PDF

On April 30, 2007 in its Opinión pages, the Spanish newspaper, EL PAIS published an article by Bernabé López García titled “Postponing Utopia, Defending Dignity." It justifies the Moroccan government’s position regarding the future of the Western Sahara and compares the Moroccan offer to the concessions of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) made at the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy. He feels that the rebel movement, the Polisary Front, should now abandon their fight for independence (for utopia). Such concessions could bring an end to the Diaspora, exile, and suffering and allow the Sahrawis to live with dignity. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Hu Jintao, president of China, has just completed an eight-nation tour of Africa--a visit that comes on the heels of a meeting in Beijing attended by some 40 African heads of state. Both the recent visit and the Beijing summit on China-Africa cooperation in November reflect China's determination to establish itself as the benevolent, non-Western continental hegemon, concerned about the plight of historically impoverished and exploited African lands. Download PDF

So the United States has brokered a cease-fire among the warring factions in Darfur, and the U.N. Security Council has authorized the deployment of a peacekeeping force. To anyone blissfully unfamiliar with history, this sounds like a decisive step that will finally end the violence that has left at least 200,000 dead and 2 million homeless. Download PDF Descargar PDF

We are truly facing something new, both because it is intense and long term. The problem is that we are seeing just the beginning of something that is sure to get worse. The situation will get worse because everything depends on the demographic growth among our southern neighbors. They are incapable of integrating millions of young people into their economic and social systems; meanwhile the expectation of wealth and well-being offered by Europe is irresistible. Download PDF

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