La oleada popular uprisings in northern Africa, which threatens to engulf much of the Arab world, finds its fundamental motor in poverty that is most people in these countries, especially affecting young people.
No coincidence that both in Tunisia and in Egypt the core of the uprisings were made by the generation under 30. Unemployment hits strongly that age range, even those with university education. The only available horizon is immigration to Europe, where it awaits a destination of exploitation, discrimination and ruthless persecution by the security forces.
Keep in mind one fact: the societies of the Arab nations are young, unlike the Europeans, increasingly aging, and increasingly also needed to sustain their economies - in the medium term- of a workforce that, paradoxically, seek to scare.
The 2008 economic crisis has not been exceeded by most Western European countries except Germany, which not suffered intensely. Because of financial collapse disappeared latest employment opportunities migrants, while intensified xenophobia.
globalization in the Arab states took one - or several - of these three roles for transnational capital, energy suppliers (gas, oil); of cheap labor (whether through migration, or factories located in its own territory) and finally, entertainment and recreation services, through tourism.
In countries with a certain degree of development, such as Egypt - a true regional subpotencia - made progress in dismantling the State, which provided an opportunity employment for young people with different academic and professional training.
The wealth generated by these activities are not redirected towards endogenous development strategies and the creation or strengthening of an internal market through the redistribution of wealth. It was bought up by real patrimonial dynasties (with origins in the royalty, as in the case of Tunisia, or in a "revolutionary coup" as in Egypt and Libya), which via government corruption fed to a bourgeoisie prey to the heads of the armed and security forces, and a whole series of staff service the regime.
These dynasties methodical and systematic practice of state terror as a method of management of power. The Western powers did -do - blind eye in order to guarantee energy supply and contain the migratory waves.
However, countries that routinely criticize the imperialist power not deprive themselves of negotiating with these regimes. In some cases, developing close ties.
A true example of the weight of oil in politics international.
