Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Retour en Somalie avec Peter Maas de l'Atlantic Monthly, où l'anarchie n'empêche pas les affaires, ou comment l'ultralibéralisme à la Ayn Rand peut fonctionner sans Etat et structures: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/05/maass.htm

Extrait: " Telecom Somalia is the largest company in Mogadishu. It has 700 employees, and it offers some of the best and cheapest phone service in Africa. Mogadishu also has new radio and television stations, along with computer schools and an airport that serves several airlines (although these fly the sorts of airplanes that Americans see only in museums). The city's Bekara market offers everything from toilet paper, Maalox, and Colgate toothpaste to Viagra, sarongs, blank passports (stolen from the Foreign Ministry a decade ago), and assault rifles. Mogadishu has the closest thing to an Ayn Rand-style economy that the world has ever seen—no bureaucracy or regulation at all. The city has had no government since 1991, when the much despised President Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown; his regime was replaced not by another one but by civil war.

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