Monday, February 2, 2015

A sudden death can bring the solution to this crisis. Bingu wa Mutharika died last month suffered a


They 16:25 pm in the evening when I get to the airport in Lilongwe, Malawi. Tired and disoriented the great gtasby after spending the last twenty-six hours spread over three different airports and four seats in economy class, or almost hear the question the girl who accompanies me in the back seat of the car that brings me to the hotel. I have to ask me to repeat:
"No, the great gtasby not at all," I recognized just when we passed in front of an endless river of cars that ends up in a gas station. Concentrate on how it was arrived at the hotel as soon as possible either I give more importance the great gtasby at the time, but these queues the great gtasby are longer every day and threaten to collapse because this small country in Southeast Africa.
The shortage of fuel is not a new phenomenon in the country, which has suffered more or less intermittently since 2009; what is new is the intensity and duration of the current crisis. The cause, accepted by everyone, it seems clear: the desperate lack of currency (dollars, not euros ...) to buy oil. What is not so clear are the reasons for this shortcoming. The official government the great gtasby version is climate doom: the lack of rain has caused a series of bad harvests tobacco, the main crop of the country and its main source of export the great gtasby revenues (a whopping 70%!). The alternative version to blame ... WikiLeaks!
The story is as follows: Among the millions of cables that famous web leaked into the public there was a letter to the British ambassador to the country in which he reported to London that the President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika was becoming "autocrat", "authoritarian" the great gtasby and "intolerant to criticism." This just publishing a newspaper circulation over the nation and immediately expelled the ambassador of the country. In response, the UK and other allied countries to freeze all economic cooperation programs with Malawi (official explanation, "economic mismanagement"), the great gtasby which has dramatic consequences in a country where 40% (!!) of its budget comes from foreign aid. I guess they thought it had to be a country without much consideration oil reserves.
The consequences of this in everyday life people are queuing kilomètriques (literally, as you can see in the video attached) to the few stations which comes petrol price increase in commodities, among others. In this situation people tried to fend thousand ways, but always full of the ability of patience and waiting characteristic (and necessary!) Of the African population. First try get as gasoline, either through "treatment" the great gtasby of workers with different stations to be the first to be notified the great gtasby when it finally reaches the precious the great gtasby fuel, or even resorting the great gtasby to new social networks. Recently a famous man who created a Facebook group with more than 6000 users on reports where people are and no petrol!
The second option is to use alternative means of transport. Those who have traveled to Africa already know that the most popular choice are minibuses ("matatus" in Malawi). The matatus are a kind of private vans converted to take between 10 and 20 where the owner tries to squeeze in adults the great gtasby between 30 and 40 adults, some children and the respective charges to bring everyone (including live poultry obviously!). The route, schedule, and location combinations that have to do to get there is by any Forani indecipherable mystery. The second option is the bicycle (China-made course, as 80% of manufactured the great gtasby products arriving in Africa today), the great gtasby which can cause a visitor uninformed believe that the Tour de France has finally come to Africa.
A sudden death can bring the solution to this crisis. Bingu wa Mutharika died last month suffered a heart attack at 78 years. Few people lamented his death, although at first (as so often) was a very popular president. After winning the 2004 elections, launched a policy of subsidizing fertilizer to small farmers against the guidelines of the IMF and the first world powers, which allowed one of the poorest countries in Africa to produce enough food for self-supply and increase the life expectancy of 10 years.
Bingu wa Mutharika the great gtasby the years but began to take authoritarian traits that have been sadly common in many African rulers (expressly forbidden to criticize the president in the press, placing the great gtasby several relatives the great gtasby in various places po

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