South of Granada
ERNESTO COLLAZO
In the seventies the Earth was populated by 2.000 million inhabitants, that is, five hundred million men and women and 1.500 million indigenous people. The first had the Word, the others borrowed it.
And the US was defeated in Vietnam.
In the year 2022, when the US has been defeated in Afghanistan and with 8.000 million people on the planet, military, economic and political hegemony cannot be maintained within the same domain parameters, using force, threats and blackmail. .
In the skies, the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile, in Russian «Кинжал» «dagger», undetectable and that can reach London or Paris in a couple of minutes, has been presented in society while a war is taking place in Ukraine, between Russia and NATO monitored by the US.
And on the newsroom table and in the kitchens of the houses of the planet, the threat of nuclear war has appeared without asking for permission.
Africa moves. Some data
As I type, the French Embassy in Ouagadougou is being stoned by demonstrators who support the young captain Ibrahim Traore who has seized power after overthrowing Lieutenant Colonel Damiba, accused of being pro-French.
You can see Russian flags and hear slogans:
-Russia we need you to defend us from France.
UN, General Assembly:
Macky Sall, president of Senegal and of the African Union, in his speech on September 21 at the UN, rejected the efforts led by the US in order to put pressure on Africa and make it take sides in its favor in global affairs.
-"Africa has already suffered enough with the burden of history, it does not want to be the cultivation of a new Cold War".
On the same platform, the Prime Minister of Mali, Abdoulaye Maiga, denounces "the attacks and violations committed by the French Army" ... by terrorist groups that are armed with weapons and intelligence by the French military.
And he wonders: How many Africans have died for France? Why that behavior?
And all this after the expulsion by the Bamako government of the French army from Mali, profoundly altering the relationship of forces in that strategic area of Africa. While listening to Russian being spoken in the presidential palace by the men of the Wagner guard.
And at the headquarters of world diplomacy, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a former guerrilla fighter and writer, says that attacking Russia is attacking Uganda.
It had been many years since these things had been heard at the diplomatic headquarters in New York...
To this day, the NATO/USA war strategies in the Taiwan Strait and in the plains east of the Dnieper further highlight these movements towards the multipolar axis on the African continent.
In North Africa, the Rota and Morón bases resupply the B-52H Stratofortress bombers that parade their nuclear charges over the skies of neutral and peaceful Sweden, difficult to imagine very recently.
The oil and gas wells in Algeria and Libya, the uranium mines in Niger, the gold in Mali, and the large gas pipelines from Nigeria, are the object of military assessment in the Africom command established in Tan-Tan, Western Sahara.
The US strategy of military control of energy resources differs and contrasts with that carried out by China, which has chosen to increase its trade relations with African countries, investing in labor and civil infrastructure projects.
Algeria, Morocco, Spain, a triangle with disagreements marked by Washington's strategic interests and grand corruption.
And a fourth leg, Israel, established on the couch in Rabat, providing intelligence and technology, in exchange for enlisting thousands of Moroccans in its colonial army in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The idiosyncrasies of Rabat and Algiers, marked by their decolonization processes.
Argel gets her with a knife to Paris's throat. Always close to Moscow and its weapons warehouse. Today 26 US congressmen ask Blinken for sanctions against Algeria for its commercial relations with Moscow, the method: either with us or against us.
The independence of Rabat, negotiated, remains under the umbrella of Paris and Washington.
In a similar way, Madrid, with its transition and its pacts with Washington in 1953, a passport to the West.
The Mirage
Tangier, Hotel Le Mirage, a large luxury hotel used by the Moroccan intelligence services to attract wills in favor of the Rabat thesis, adopted by the US, and its "autonomy plan for Western Sahara".
Objective: to pave once and for all the reluctance of the Madrid government to join the plan.
Le Mirage, a place of retreat for Felipe González, "here I find the calm and serenity of the sea, a beautiful place." Frequented by the socialist barons of him, the last to join the sensations of the silk sheets of the Mirage all paid, Bono. And in the halls and private rooms, the Moroccan intelligence whispers to them and to high officials of the State the tactics to abandon the Saharawis to their fate and completely rectify state policies of forty years regarding Western Sahara.
In the shadows, the Mossad and its Pegasus, checking all the electronic devices of the Spanish Government, have achieved a radical change of orientation in Madrid's foreign policy regarding Western Sahara, in the midst of an energy and military crisis with Russia. And Madrid places itself bare-chested at the service of Washington's interests, leaving the energy and political flank it maintains with Algeria unsupplied. Not a single Algerian methane tanker has arrived at a Spanish port in the month of August, and the flow of gas from the tubes has decreased significantly. Fulfilling a serious warning to Zapatero on a visit to Algiers by President Bouteflika in the official welcome lunch speech, which I was a witness to.
-Spain must comply with its obligations as a colonial power in Western Sahara and, if it abandons them, not a single drop of gas from the Algerian wells will reach Spain.
That day ZP did not appear in the usual subsequent press conference.
The government's change of position is pure "mirage" ("mirage") to achieve a real change in the correlation of forces in this part of the Maghreb and more seems like a poor act of propaganda for Rabat as payment to prevent the jump of migrants from the fences, preserve the colonial cities of Ceuta and Melilla and keep the secrets discovered by Pegasus.
The latest massacre in Nador is too shocking for such a vile exchange.
Chinese in Algeria
Chinese and Algerian Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Ramtane Lamanra, two experienced diplomats, sign the Silk Road Strategic Agreement for Africa. Culmination of intense collaborative work between the two countries.
Nineties, Algiers. The sun reverberated against the runways of the Houari Boumedienne airport in Algiers while I smoked while waiting for my flight to be called, delayed ad nauseam by the anti-terrorist measures that prevailed in Algeria after the interruption of the legislative elections, won in the first round by the FIS and the collapse of the FLN, in power since 1962.
Disciplined passengers go down the steps of the plane in rows of two deep, when they reach the runway and at the brief orders of one of them they form columns of four. They all wear gray overalls and a cap of the same color, without badges. None carry luggage, bare hands. The leader of the group, which he has ordered to form, hands over the passports that he takes from a bag slung over his shoulder to the Algerian police officer, who talks about him on the radio and walks away from him. The column follows him in silence and passes the passport control parading one by one, passing the passport control booth they re-form in four and disappear inside two buses waiting outside and departing escorted by vehicles Algerian police.
The scene did not last more than five or ten minutes.
They were construction workers who collaborated with a huge plan to build a million houses to cover the chronic lack of housing for civilians in Algeria. They were followed by Chinese companies, Chinese products, contracts for the sale of gas and oil, Chinese technology for refineries and LNG processors.
And an aqueduct built in record time with more than 1.500 kilometers of pipes that transports water from the north, from the fossil water deposits drilled by Chinese companies, to the heart of the Central Sahara desert, feeding the city of Tamanrasset.
Those workers were dressed in red overalls and white helmets, well equipped and working under large red umbrellas with the Chinese flag clearly visible.
At that time I witnessed the visit to Algiers of the American ambassador Henry Crumpton. In his briefcase the Trans-Saharan Counter Terrorism Initiative (TSCTI) and a check for half a billion dollars for five years. Supervised and controlled by the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM).
At the departure of the dapper diplomat, terrorism in the Sahel became the front page of all the news.
Two opposing policies in conflict, the win-win of development and trade among equals, and that of the old imperialism of prey and submission of the peoples who do not obey.
Let's hope that differences will not have to be resolved with a «dagger» in Washington's throat called the X-47М2 «Kinzhal», for the good of mankind.
