Presse américaine : Le New York Times analyse la situation en Algérie

[Wosnay]

Demande le plutôt a SI CHRIF LE BG, ou adresse toi au traducteur de la map

Une poignée de généraux et de responsables des services de renseignements, "accrochée au pouvoir" depuis l'indépendance et réfractaire à tout changement, a enfoncé l'Algérie dans un "état de léthargie", au moment où le pays se trouve "au bord de l'implosion", écrit le New York Times, dans son édition du Week-end. "Le pays se dirige vers l'implosion", soutient le New York Times, en citant les propos de l'ancien Premier ministre algérien, Ahmed Benbitour, dans un article intitulé : "Politiquement à la dérive, Alger s'accroche à ses vieux démons". La "paralysie du gouvernement est l'un des symptômes les plus manifestes du malaise de l'Algérie et de la méfiance des dirigeants vis-à-vis d'une transition politique", relève le journal américain. "Le pays n'est pas dirigé par un seul homme, mais par une poignée de personnes", souligne le New York Times, en citant un diplomate occidental, pour qui la question la plus pressante est de savoir pour "combien de temps le pouvoir algérien peut-il encore persister à vouloir acheter la paix sociale sans changement politique". L'auteur de cette analyse, Carlotta Gall, constate, dans ce contexte, que le peuple algérien fait les frais "de problèmes en cascade : une économie à la dérive et une baisse du niveau et de la qualité de l'éducation, qui risquent de compromettre l'avenir du pays et même sa stabilité". "Pour les critiques et autres observateurs, la génération de dirigeants issue de l'indépendance de l' Algérie en 1962, encore aux commandes du pays un demi-siècle plus tard, continuera à résister à tout changement", souligne le New York Times, en expliquant qu'une "armada de généraux, d'agents du renseignement, outre Saïd Bouteflika, le frère du président, entourent ce dernier, et seuls les loyalistes sont promus".

[Bachi]

Il est vraiment intéressant, l'article du New York Times...
Le vrai article, pas celui que le bghal nous a posté.

[Wosnay]

Kayna menha Bachi

[Serpico]

Demande le plutôt a SI CHRIF LE BG, ou adresse toi au traducteur de la map

Wosnay

La MAP a simplement repris une expression consacrée " vieux démons" qui veut dire "vielles habitudes" , "vielles manières".

C'est toi qui a "glissé" en ignorant le vrai sens , le sens littéral du terme "old ways"!

[okba30]

J'aime bien l'article original en anglais, Le tableau brossé est assez juste et la critique constructive.

un autre article de Jerusalem Post

If 2014 elections are to run smoothly and North Africa’s last dictatorship is to be preserved, Bouteflika and his allies will need to tread carefully.

By DANIEL NISMAN
09/30/2013

There are those who argue that Egypt’s infamous dictator Hosni Mubarak sealed his own fate long before the first activists pitched their tents in Tahrir Square in January 2011. They say the countdown really began in 2010, when Mubarak’s eldest son Gamal pitched a bold economic reform package to weather Egypt through the global economic recession.

At the time, Gamal was known to be next in line to succeed his father. The plan would have essentially taken the regime’s massive economic holdings out of the hands of the military-backed older generation and put it into the hands of Gamal’s loyal young business class within the ruling NDP party. After the Arab Spring engulfed the country, the Egyptian military unsurprisingly had little motivation to save the embattled Mubarak family, instead organizing his dismissal and eventually enabling the trial of Hosni and his two sons on corruption charges.

Numerous comparisons between Egypt and Algeria have since been made in the global pundit-sphere.

Most have focused on their respective battles with political Islam, but few have given credit Algeria’s aging authoritarian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for recognizing Mubarak’s mistakes and keeping his regime afloat amid the storm of regional political upheaval.

Not less than four months ago, 76-year-old Bouteflika was fighting for his life in a Parisian hospital after suffering a debilitating stroke, while his political career was pronounced dead by most Algerians. Not one to forgive, Bouteflika has wasted no time in identifying and sidelining anyone who prematurely plotted to fill his shoes during his absence. In September, he implemented Algeria’s largest cabinet reshuffle since 1990, replacing the interior, foreign and justice ministers with his close allies.

Bouteflika appointed the previous foreign minister, Mourad Medelci, to president of the Constitutional Council. The Council, the Interior Ministry and and Justice Ministry comprise the three bodies which will oversee the country’s first post-Arab Spring presidential elections in April 2014.

Bouteflika’s stroke has made it practically impossible for him to legitimize running for an unprecedented fourth term in office, but reports indicate that he has been grooming his younger brother Said for the job.

Said Bouteflika has also been the driving force behind the recent political strong-arming, which has not only sought to influence control over upcoming polls, but diminish the influence of the Bouteflika clan’s most powerful rivals in Algerian politics, the powerful military intelligence service, the DRS.

In recent years, the power struggle between Bouteflika and the DRS’s secretive commander, General Mohammed “Toufik” Mediene has intensified. Since taking command of the newly-created DRS in 1990, the KGB-trained Mediene has become widely known as the heart of “Le Pouvier” (the power) in the country.

Mediene is reportedly spearheading recent corruption charges against former energy minister Chekib Khelil and eight other officials who are known Bouteflika allies, causing extreme embarrassment for the administration during a period of rising economic discontent, particularly regarding mismanagement of the country’s crucial oil sector. On August 10, international arrest warrants were filed for the accused for awarding contracts between the state oil company Sonatrach and European firms in exchange for commissions.

Bouteflika has used the recent cabinet reshuffle to fire back at Mediene, placing his DRS under the supervision of the new deputy defense minister, the army’s current Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah. Salah is, you guessed it, a close ally of Bouteflika, ever since he was appointed by the president to chief of staff in 2004.

The proverbial ball is now in Mediene’s court and if history is any indicator, he will not likely allow Bouteflika to transfer power to his brother Said without a fight. Bouteflika has reportedly attempted to replace Mediene himself twice. In one instance, the candidate was mysteriously killed in a car accident, and the other was publically shamed by a barrage of publicized corruption scandals.

As the longest-serving internal intelligence chief of any modern nation, Mediene is privy to all of the skeletons in Bouteflika’s closets. In some cases quite literally, as his DRS has been tasked with the regime’s dirty work since the 1992 military coup.

In addition, Mediene has been known to work with pretty much anyone or do anything to achieve his goals. Legend has it that during the 1992-1998 civil war, Mediene ordered DRS agents to stage bombing attacks under the guise of Islamic radicals in order to curb their support, while Mediene himself has been known to personally torture and threaten dissidents.

In an age of social media, Internet and emboldened activism, however, the showdown between Algeria’s top power brokers isn’t going to be a clean fight. Algerian media is becoming ever more willing to name and shame government officials for corruption, fueling the general population’s already dismal approval ratings of the country’s leadership. Until now, it has been widely assumed that the memories of Algeria’s brutal civil war, which followed the coup of 1992, are keeping the country’s labor unions, civil activists and Islamist opposition groups from banding together and rising up against the regime.

Much like in Mubarak’s Egypt, a dynastic transfer of power from Bouteflika to his brother isn’t going to be received positively by anyone, regardless of whether Said puts his own name on the ballot or fields a close ally to hold the fort until the next round. Bouteflika can only bank on the Algerian people’s fear of political instability, a fear undoubtedly exacerbated by the turmoil engulfing newly-revolutionized states across the Arab World.

Until now, Bouteflika has successfully outmaneuvered his political rivals and even his own ailing health, but at a severe cost to his regime’s image among the general population. If 2014 elections are to run smoothly and North Africa’s last dictatorship is to be preserved, Bouteflika and his allies will need to tread carefully.



The author is the Middle East and North Africa intelligence manager at Max Security Solutions, a geopolitical and security risk consulting firm.

[Wosnay]

a MAP a simplement repris une expression consacrée " vieux démons" qui veut dire "vielles habitudes" , "vielles manières".

C'est toi qui a "glissé" en ignorant le vrai sens , le sens littéral du terme "old ways"!

Ah bon !!! einh , ceci explique cela
ton journaleux aurait du écrire, les veilles méthodes algériennes représente un cauchemar au makhzane, c'est mieux que de donner une fausse traduction
u see what i mean ?

[Hibiscus]

and North Africa’s last dictatorship...

Interessant effectivement..

[Elysium]

Tu peux nous donner la source de l'article?

Il suffit de lire "li ginirou, li drs, li..." pour savoir que ça ne peut que l’œuvre des analphabètes du makhzanistan.

[okba30]

and North Africa’s last dictatorship...

L'Algérie est vue sous l'angle sioniste, si cela fait le bonheur du très démocratique Maroc tant mieux.
Avec l'Égypte, la Tunisie et la Libye on est au nirvana, c'est le paroxysme du bonheur.
Les données étalées concernant l’Algérie sont plus ou moins justes ... intelligemment filtrées par le New York Times.

Que voulez-vous, on a la posture droite, on ne fait pas dans le lèche-botte des gouvernants.

[Hibiscus]

Que voulez-vous, on a la posture droite, on ne fait pas dans le lèche-botte des gouvernants.

Tres droite, rien a dire, surtout quand je vois tous les sujets ouverts traitant des atteintes aux droits de l'homme en algerie. La suisse ou safi.

[Algerinho]

Nous devons effectivement composer avec ces édentés analphabètes...L'article original à été remixé par l'imprimerie nationale des dos courbés d'où ce titre racoleur...Un passage évidement dissimulé par ces lécheurs de babouches :

"Mr. Kerry’s mission to persuade this critical strategic partner — with vast oil wealth, a powerful army and intelligence service, and experience in fighting Islamic terrorism — to take a more assertive role in the region will be no easy task.

“Algeria should be a big actor in this part of the world, but it is not playing its role,” Ihsane el-Kadi of Maghreb Emergent, an online business publication, said in an interview. “It is still a closed country.”

[absent]

je n'ai pas lu l'article du new york times. mais quand je vois les clowneries du premier ministre actuel qui témoignent du gap qui sépare nos clowns au pouvoir de la réalité du pays et de la région, quand je pense au constat fait par l'ex premier ministre sur l'ampleur de la mafia économique au pays et surtout quand je me rappelle que nous somme présidés par un zombie qui veut se présenter pour un 4 eme mandat. je ne peux qu'être inquiet ...

[okba30]

Tres droite, rien a dire, surtout quand je vois tous les sujets ouverts traitant des atteintes aux droits de l'homme en algerie. La suisse ou safi.

On attend que vous nous montrez le chemin.

[AGHBAL]

Le pouvoir, c'est le mekhzen, le reste c'est pour de la figuration et pour applaudir dans les plateaux TV...
@ ott

Le pouvoir, c'est le mekhzen, le reste c'est pour de la figuration et pour applaudir dans les plateaux TV...
Oui tu as raison. Le roi leur a donné son approbation pour attaquer l'Algérie le mois dernier.

On doit pas s'étonner de leurs haines et mensonges.
@ nacera

Ils sont bien connus, ce sont des chercheurs, prof. universitaires et responsables plitiques par dessus le marché

Ils ne machaient pas leurs mots à SI ott et LALLA nacera

[Wosnay]

a leurs tête le célèbre "modeste scientifique " SI CHRIF le B......