Monday, January 24, 2011

Pirates of every kind





The dictionary defines "piracy" as a robbery committed at sea. Today we have been talking about piracy in the Indian Ocean, next to the Somali coasts. If you think in the definition of piracy and you relate it to the overexploitation of some fishing grounds and the practices of some developed countries in this area, you will reach interesting conclusions. 

Here you have some links where you can read more about the origins of present piracy in the Indian Ocean: 





And this last cartoon compares Somali pirates with other land pirates: 


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