In the events going on in the Arab world to draw out the tyrants from power, the key ignition is nepotism and corruption and which effect is of course the control over the fortunes they amassed Now it’s Khadafy’s turn ‘’whose family businesses are based mainly on oil and the extraction perpetrated into the Libyan arks ascends to thousand of millions of Dollars, according to the money missing yearly calculated between the State´s profits and the public expense’’ (El Pais, Madrid) The newspaper from Madrid adds that the pattern of Khadafy’s enrichment is the usual one of authoritarian regimes: the leader apparently keeps himself on the fringe but allows those closest to him to operate the country as a fief, sometimes even in a grotesque manner, as is the case of Leila Trabelsi, wife of thrown Tunisian president Zine Ben Ali, who controlled between 30% to 40% of the Tunisian economy and in its precipitated flight, made a stop at the Central Bank and took out 1.5 tons of gold bullions.
En el turno está Gadafi, cuyos negocios familiares tienen su fuente principal en el petróleo y el expolio perpetrado a las arcas libias asciende a miles de millones de dólares, a tenor de los faltantes anuales entre los ingresos estatales y el gasto público . (El País, de Madrid). Agrega el diario madrileño que el patrón de enriquecimiento de Gadafi es el habitual en los regímenes autoritarios: el líder se mantiene aparentemente al margen pero permite que sus allegados manejen el país como un feudo, a veces en forma grotesca, como en el caso de Leila Trabelsi, esposa del derrocado presidente tunecino Zine Ben Ali, que controlaba entre el 30% y el 40% de la economía de Tunes, y que en su precipitada huída pasó por el Banco Central y se llevó 1,5 toneladas de oro en lingotes.