The gunpowder and the fuse
La crisis de Ceuta muestra que el crecimiento económico no basta por sí solo si persiste la desigualdad social
The images of Ceuta have gone around the world. They dramatically reflect the problems of our time, social imbalances and those between territories and regions. They have shown the acrimony of the political debate around emigration. And they have caused another serious episode of European division, with more countries willing to exploit other people's problems for internal use than to exercise fair cooperation to protect a common external border.
A moving mass of people who have left behind nearly 140 dead, according to some NGOs' estimates, and surpasses in intensity the boat people of Vietnam or the Cuban balseros. It is only comparable to the flight from a war like those in Syria or Ukraine. But that was not the case of Morocco.
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