Houari Boumédiène

Houari Boumédiène (in Arab: rear RTL هواريبومدين), of its true name Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba was a Politician and former Algerian president born the August 23rd 1932 and dead the December 27th 1978.

Youth

Born the August 23rd 1932 in Ain Hesseinia, close to Guelma, in a poor family of the Constantinois, Boumédiène already knew very young person the bloody events of May 8th, 1945 to Sétif and Guelma, of which he says later: “This day, I aged prematurely. The teenager that I was became a man. This day, the world rocked. Even the ancestors moved under ground. And the children understood that it would be necessary to fight the weapons with the hand to become free men. Nobody can forget this day. ”

During the the Forties, he undertook Koranic studies at the Kettania institute of Constantine, then continued them at the Zitouna institute of Tunis; it moved thereafter towards institute Al-Azhar of the Cairo.

Access to the capacity

In 1955, it turns over to Algeria where it joined the rows of the ALN (Armée with national release). It occupied the post of head of staff. Once acquired independence, he became vice-president and Minister for the Defense of the Council of the Revolution which is then chaired by Ben Bella. Not sharing the political orientations of this last, it decides the June 19th 1965 to carry out a Coup d'etat at the end which he becomes the new president of Algeria. Under its direction, he undertook several actions in order to blur on the internal plan, the tensions born of the Guerre of independence. In 1968, it succeeds in making evacuate the last military base occupied by the France with Mers el Kébir (Oran). On the economic plan, he chooses the socialist model , he built on the basis of this choice much of factories and schools, and contributed especially, the February 24th 1971, in the name of the principle of the recovery of the national wealths, with the Nationalization of hydrocarbons, what regretted France .

This nationalization, posterior with that of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company by the Iran IEN Mossadegh - which was relieved thereafter, conferred to him a more important international dimension .

International policy

In 1973, It organized the top of the non-aligned to which largest leaders Tiers-Monde of the time assisted, it consequently follows from there a period during which Algeria of Boumédiène offered a support for the various liberation movements of Africa, of Asia and Latin America, and it is as representative of the Third world that it moved in 1974 with New York, to take part in a special meeting of the General meeting of UNO on the raw materials, meeting which it itself convened in the name of the non-aligned ones, it made on this occasion a speech by which it exposed a economic Doctrine, appealing inter alia with the establishment of a new international economic order just , which would take into account the interests of the Third world . In 1975 it accommodates the first top of the OPEC by the means which the members of the trust could lay down a concerted oil policy. In the wake of this same meeting, he managed to seal peace between the Iran of the Chah and the Iraq of Saddam Hussein.

Last years

On the internal plan, it made vote in 1976 a charter under the terms of which it promulgates the constitution of a legislative Parliament as well as the creation of the position of president of the Republic, subjected by the vote for all.

As from the year 1978, public appearances of president Houari Boumédiène are done increasingly rare. He suffered from a disease of blood, the disease of Waldenström. Its death, with the unknown circumstances, occurred the December 27th 1978.

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