There are two prisms through which one could look at the endgame unfolding in Abidjan, where, uncannily, Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Dramane Ouattara have, in a perfect symmetry, swapped positions.
The first prism is provided by flicks straight from the Western Channel and suggested by the French daily "Libération" which called Gbagbo's residence in the Abidjan Cocody quarter "Fort Gbagbo."
Unable to dislodge the incumbent bunkered at Fort-Gbagbo, the recreant forces of Ouattara have simply resorted to a "blockade" in the hope that, worn out by attrition, Gbagbo would one day cry uncle! A remake of one of those Western movies directed maybe by John Ford and set against the Cinemascope background of pre-revolutionary Mexico--without bad and good guys, with only bandits-qua-warlords...
The other prism is provided by the adventures of Tintin, specifically "Tintin and the Picaros," in which Gen Alcazar and Gen Tapioca--through coups, counter-coups, insurgencies, and counter-insurgencies--attempt to control a Latin American banana republic...
Friday, 8 April 2011
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