PODCAST | What happened to the Arab Spring

Today marks 14 years since the gesture of desperation by a Tunisian citizen that unleashed one of the most important revolts so far this century. On December 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor, burned himself to death, helpless in the face of police corruption and endemic poverty. Tunisians reacted by taking to the streets to protest, day after day defying the brutal repression of a regime that ended up falling a month later with President Ben Ali’s flight from the country. These protests were soon reproduced in Egypt, and ended the Mubarak regime, and from there they spread to Libya, Syria and other Arab countries, even in the Persian Gulf, in a phenomenon that we in the West call the Arab Spring.

We spoke with Francesca Cicardi, a journalist from elDiario.es specialized in this part of the world and a witness to the historic citizen camps in Tahrir Square in Cairo and the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, to remember what these revolts consisted of and how They have ended when the historic fall of Bashar Al Assad’s regime has just occurred in Syria.

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