In two years, there were 22 military coups d’etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d’etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
AHMED BEN BELLAI accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
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We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all.
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This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d’etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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