Protests against Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's leader, not limited to demonstrations in the streets. The opponents know that the oil depends much of the African economy, and therefore made an announcement yesterday: they control the majority of oil wells. A situation that worries the international markets because as a result of the Libyan crisis, the price per barrel in the international market soared to 120 dollars, its highest price since 2008.
The insurgent committee has under its domination Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya and the first to replace the local government (see chart) said it took most of the deposits in the East. The city of Ras Lanuf is one of the most important in the field. In the latter is part of the largest oil industry, saying the insurgents manage.
Since the crisis began against Gadhafi, the production of 1.79 million barrels a day, which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) records the African country, has fallen by half. In addition to the shares in the oil category, the administration announced that insurgent Benghazi hand coordinate actions of other "liberated Libyan towns." Another point to note in the rebellion: the tribes.
The opposition is heterogeneous ethnic and unresponsive, apparently, to any party or political organization. The strongest of these associations is the clan Warfalá rebels, who supports the fight against the dictator. This group consists of one million (16.6% of the population) people in a country of six million inhabitants.
In the ranks of the struggling side mostly young and rebellious members of the Armed Forces. This is the reconstruction that offers Alia Brahimi, a researcher at the London School of Economics specializing in Libya. "I think to understand what is happening is necessary to look particularly who is still faithful to Gadhafi: it is a small side." Opposite him stands a rebellion with a very broad social base.
Supported by the base, who are fighting against the regime are mostly youths, armed often with material or deserters rebel military sectors. Beyond fighting these days, is significant to note that the fuse of revolt ignited substantially in Benghazi in the east of the country, an area traditionally hostile to the regime, with some protests by lawyers and intellectuals to denounce the detention of a lawyer.
" On the other side Gadhafi remains clan members Gadafa, another important social added key positions in the Armed Forces are the Magarha: secret services, some sectors of the military and mercenary groups. In addition to the demographic weight, the adhesion of Warfallá is crucial because the tribe is rooted in Tripoli, the country's western region, the area in which the regime exercised strict control.
Tribal balance is of great strategic importance to Libya, a country with virtually no civil society and state institutions. Gadhafi, in fact, consolidated his power with a clever game of alliances. The weight of tribal balances reached the point of naming in the Armed Forces colonel of a tribe responsible for a section of artillery, without giving them jurisdiction over the management of ammunition, assigned to another official from another tribe, according to sources tell European diplomats.
"But it would be a mistake to interpret all events in tribal key," says Brahimi. They flow in a dynamic that can not be interpreted with fixed categories. Many questions remain open. Foremost among them, the exact situation of the armed forces (which sectors remain faithful?) Or the role they can play Islamist organizations, which in the 1990's came to represent a serious challenge to the regime before being crushed.
Brahimi concluded: "What is clear is that the current strategy of violent repression of Gadhafi has resulted in adding new accessions to the rebellion, which now has a large popular support." Spanish Congress of Ministers approved the speed limit on all motorways Spanish from March 7, during an indefinite period, will be 110 kilometers per hour.
The vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said the measure is part of a larger plan for energy saving and, according to Executive, will allow a saving of 15% in gasoline consumption and 11% for diesel. Private use is 15% of the total energy consumed by Spain, according to the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy, Ministry of Industry.
The measures would save the current price, thousand 930 million dollars a year by the speed and 220 by increased use of biofuels, according to Industry. Rubalcaba said that the measure involves changing traffic signals and the system of fines. "We understand that has nothing to do with road safety per se, but consumption and energy savings." The vice president said the crisis that started in the North African countries has led to an increase in the energy bill to be contained.
"There is no supply risk, but we have a bill that is going (...) by the crisis in North Africa but not only in Libya, including in Egypt." Colonel Muammar Gadhafi announced the opening of the arsenals "to arm the people" and called on his supporters to "defend Libya," against the uprising that took control of the east of the country and threatens to topple the regime he founded for 42 years.
The "Guide of the Revolution" Libyan, 68, harangued the crowd in Green Square Tripoli and threatened to "crush any enemy at a time when its forces fiercely repressed insurrectionary outbreaks west of the capital. The siege on Gadhafi also narrowed from abroad, amid a barrage of criticism for repression of the popular uprising that erupted on 15 February.
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, a son of Libyan dictator said he wants to negotiate with the rebels as of today, and said the Army will not take more attacks to promote a climate for negotiation. "The Army decided not to attack terrorists and provide an opportunity for negotiation. Hope to do it peacefully.
" Saif Al Islam said that the situation is calm in the country except in the cities of Misrata and Zawiya, in which he recognized to have problems. "Apart from Misrata and Zawiya, all is calm ... Negotiations are ongoing and we are optimistic. " In New York, the Security Council began discussing a draft resolution drawn up by Western powers who warns that repression Gadhafi in Libya could be considered as crimes against humanity.
The draft says that the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague should investigate the violence in Libya. The project also proposes to ban travel and freeze the assets of Gadhafi and his top aides, and imposed an embargo on arms sales to Libya. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, signed an executive order freezing all assets of Gadhafi, part of his family and members of his regime, in what represents the first in a series of sanctions against the regime.
The popular revolt in Libya maintains the fence on the regime to the gates of Tripoli, while increasing pressure from the international community, which is considering the creation of an air exclusion zone and carry Gadhafi International Criminal Court (ICC). 
The insurgent committee has under its domination Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya and the first to replace the local government (see chart) said it took most of the deposits in the East. The city of Ras Lanuf is one of the most important in the field. In the latter is part of the largest oil industry, saying the insurgents manage.
Since the crisis began against Gadhafi, the production of 1.79 million barrels a day, which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) records the African country, has fallen by half. In addition to the shares in the oil category, the administration announced that insurgent Benghazi hand coordinate actions of other "liberated Libyan towns." Another point to note in the rebellion: the tribes.
The opposition is heterogeneous ethnic and unresponsive, apparently, to any party or political organization. The strongest of these associations is the clan Warfalá rebels, who supports the fight against the dictator. This group consists of one million (16.6% of the population) people in a country of six million inhabitants.
In the ranks of the struggling side mostly young and rebellious members of the Armed Forces. This is the reconstruction that offers Alia Brahimi, a researcher at the London School of Economics specializing in Libya. "I think to understand what is happening is necessary to look particularly who is still faithful to Gadhafi: it is a small side." Opposite him stands a rebellion with a very broad social base.
Supported by the base, who are fighting against the regime are mostly youths, armed often with material or deserters rebel military sectors. Beyond fighting these days, is significant to note that the fuse of revolt ignited substantially in Benghazi in the east of the country, an area traditionally hostile to the regime, with some protests by lawyers and intellectuals to denounce the detention of a lawyer.
" On the other side Gadhafi remains clan members Gadafa, another important social added key positions in the Armed Forces are the Magarha: secret services, some sectors of the military and mercenary groups. In addition to the demographic weight, the adhesion of Warfallá is crucial because the tribe is rooted in Tripoli, the country's western region, the area in which the regime exercised strict control.
Tribal balance is of great strategic importance to Libya, a country with virtually no civil society and state institutions. Gadhafi, in fact, consolidated his power with a clever game of alliances. The weight of tribal balances reached the point of naming in the Armed Forces colonel of a tribe responsible for a section of artillery, without giving them jurisdiction over the management of ammunition, assigned to another official from another tribe, according to sources tell European diplomats.
"But it would be a mistake to interpret all events in tribal key," says Brahimi. They flow in a dynamic that can not be interpreted with fixed categories. Many questions remain open. Foremost among them, the exact situation of the armed forces (which sectors remain faithful?) Or the role they can play Islamist organizations, which in the 1990's came to represent a serious challenge to the regime before being crushed.
Brahimi concluded: "What is clear is that the current strategy of violent repression of Gadhafi has resulted in adding new accessions to the rebellion, which now has a large popular support." Spanish Congress of Ministers approved the speed limit on all motorways Spanish from March 7, during an indefinite period, will be 110 kilometers per hour.
The vice president, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said the measure is part of a larger plan for energy saving and, according to Executive, will allow a saving of 15% in gasoline consumption and 11% for diesel. Private use is 15% of the total energy consumed by Spain, according to the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy, Ministry of Industry.
The measures would save the current price, thousand 930 million dollars a year by the speed and 220 by increased use of biofuels, according to Industry. Rubalcaba said that the measure involves changing traffic signals and the system of fines. "We understand that has nothing to do with road safety per se, but consumption and energy savings." The vice president said the crisis that started in the North African countries has led to an increase in the energy bill to be contained.
"There is no supply risk, but we have a bill that is going (...) by the crisis in North Africa but not only in Libya, including in Egypt." Colonel Muammar Gadhafi announced the opening of the arsenals "to arm the people" and called on his supporters to "defend Libya," against the uprising that took control of the east of the country and threatens to topple the regime he founded for 42 years.
The "Guide of the Revolution" Libyan, 68, harangued the crowd in Green Square Tripoli and threatened to "crush any enemy at a time when its forces fiercely repressed insurrectionary outbreaks west of the capital. The siege on Gadhafi also narrowed from abroad, amid a barrage of criticism for repression of the popular uprising that erupted on 15 February.
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, a son of Libyan dictator said he wants to negotiate with the rebels as of today, and said the Army will not take more attacks to promote a climate for negotiation. "The Army decided not to attack terrorists and provide an opportunity for negotiation. Hope to do it peacefully.
" Saif Al Islam said that the situation is calm in the country except in the cities of Misrata and Zawiya, in which he recognized to have problems. "Apart from Misrata and Zawiya, all is calm ... Negotiations are ongoing and we are optimistic. " In New York, the Security Council began discussing a draft resolution drawn up by Western powers who warns that repression Gadhafi in Libya could be considered as crimes against humanity.
The draft says that the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague should investigate the violence in Libya. The project also proposes to ban travel and freeze the assets of Gadhafi and his top aides, and imposed an embargo on arms sales to Libya. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, signed an executive order freezing all assets of Gadhafi, part of his family and members of his regime, in what represents the first in a series of sanctions against the regime.
The popular revolt in Libya maintains the fence on the regime to the gates of Tripoli, while increasing pressure from the international community, which is considering the creation of an air exclusion zone and carry Gadhafi International Criminal Court (ICC).
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