Comment on What’s the deal with Western Sahara?

Rigal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Spanish here, and not really versed on the matter, but I’ll share what I heard. It borderlines conspiracy theories so take it con a stone of salt.

Basically it was part of Spain, with the civil war and following years it was considered a hassle and left abandoned, despite saharauis can get Spanish nationality. During decolonization the UN said that spain should decolonise it and help to stablish an autonomous government. Spain did nothing because it stopped recognising the territory as their own. Therefore it becomes no body’s land. Morroco has interest on that area and saharauis has interest on being independants. Spain doesn’t care and just use it for politics with Morroco.

The far left say say that saharauis should be protected, but the rest doesn’t really care and sometimes it is used as a political leverage with Morroco. There are even conspiracies teorías that the kin Juan Carlos was a CIA agent or at least sympatizer and has helped on maintain the ignore west Sahara issue among other policies with north africa.

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