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Revolution Regrets? Tunisia's Bitter Harvest of Freedom, Corruption & Joblessness

After the fall of Zine El Abidin Ben Ali's   "Dictatorship" and the start of the "Arab Spring" everything changed, Maybe in a good way maybe in a bad way, I can't give you my personal experience about it cause in that time i only was 11 years old. I'm only here to give you my opinion about what's happening now,  And talk about what people are saying in bars, cafe-shops or on the streets of Tunisia. I'm not gonna get into the details but for the people who's reading this and are not familiar with this event i'm gonna put you in the context. The protests were sparked   on December 2010 after the self-immolation of Mouhamed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid, They led to the ousting of Ben ali on january 2011 when he offically resigned after fleeing to Saudi Arabia ending his 23 years in power, And all this was caused by government corruption, social inequalities, unemployment, a lack of political freedoms (Such as freedom of speech), poor living cond...