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Well, I have to say that your analysis of Egypt is quite wrong. The last time I was in the poorer parts of Egypt, in 2008, extreme food poverty was easy to find
by gregsq 14y ago
Well, I have to say that your analysis of Egypt is quite wrong. The last time I was in the poorer parts of Egypt, in 2008, extreme food poverty was easy to find. Men in sack cloth queued at huts waiting for unleavened flat bread. One method used by Mubarak to contain dissent was in providing food aid to the poor, and wealth disparity in Egypt had fostered a festering hatred of the government.
The intensity of the Egyptian riots is very much connected to general poverty and food scarcity in large parts of Egypt, though not uniformaly. Cairo is a different circumstance. None the less, your point is incorrect.
- ekianjo 14y agoWell, the people who were rioting in Cairo were certainly not suffering from Hunger, that is for sure. In other parts of Egypt, you may be right.
- lifeguard 14y agoWrong. The masses of people started over food problems. The government tried to crush them, and there was a massive response from other parts of society. Spain started the same way.
- ekianjo 14y agoFood price increase!= Starvation or Hunger. You see riots, demonstrations in western countries when prices for petrol or commodities rise, but that does not mean that the situation is necessarily unbearable. By the way, price food increase has also a lot to do with the US government debt and the weakness of the US dollar (inflation) leading to increasing $ needed to buy the same amount of food over time. And poorer countries are directly impacted by this.