Charlotte Hale

Logan 3
Issues Honors
2/16/16
Step two
Libya is facing a major political, economic, and social crises. The political crisis is that in
2011 Libyas militants overruled the dictator that had been ruling for approximately 42 years. His
name was Muammar Qadhafi. Know Libya, having being under a dictatorship for so long, does
not know how to reconstruct a stable government. The government is in a very uncertain state,
and although there are small communities within Libya that do have a political structure, based
on their religion, the country as a whole is in a lost state. There was, very recently, a primary
election, but the results of that are inconclusive and was very hard to regulate considering the
social and economic instability. Politically people in Libya are very alienated from information
about their government. The current controlling reshime does not give the people access to things
such as internet or cell phones. This means that when it comes to supporting a political leader
they do not know what to do because they don't have access to the information. The whole
country is involved in the issues going on in Libya, communities, the government, and the
individuals. This issue began when the dictator Muammar Qadhafi was overthrown, and because
he was overthrown this is why the alienation issue accord. Very recently though ISIS has invaded
Libya and President Obama is not approving military intervention. This problem began very very
recently, within a few months from now. The ISIS crisis is happening because of ISIS taking
over power. It has, since the fall of Qadhafi, been a war zone for ISIS. The people who control
the oil (only major producing natural resource) is mainly the small percent of wealthy people,
and the people who remain in line with Qadhafi's resheme. The main oil pipelines/fields are in
the northern part of Libya near the capital. The Alienation of the people began from since the
beginning when Qadhafi was the dictator.

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