These days, Tunisia is supposed to be celebrating the first anniversary of the holding of real fair free transparent elections for the first time in the Arab world. Indeed, Tunisia was the state where the "Arab Spring" was first kindled (although some believe this phenomena can be tracked back to previous events), its population staging what some like to call the "Jasmine Revolution" (in fact, after the uprisings broke out, Chinese authorities banned the term "jasmine" from any kind of Internet search, probably afraid of an eventual contagion among their nationals). But nowadays the country is awash with uncertainty and nobody seems to be celebrating. As it has been seen in other countries of the region, those who united to overthrow the dictator are now divided and give a hint of the "two Tunisias" that have always existed. Some accuse the Government of having put into place, to that effect, a "divide and rule" system. On 14 Oc...
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