Should Chavez depart from the scene, his regime will be plunged into an internecine battle, since there is no obvious successor.
Yet once Fidel Castro passes from the scene, and the regime he founded collapses — in a few years?
Having thus presented the UN with evidence of the use of sarin – which the inspectors quickly acquired at the scene – the Assad regime, if guilty, would surely have realised that a military attack would be staged by Western nations.
Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), said it had set up a committee to look into the circumstances of the deaths of Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in Sirte, the scene of his regime's last stand.
However, what is taking place on the Syrian scene between the regime and the people cannot be controlled by Israel, which explains their concern.
Rovera traveled to Syria in April to investigate the scene of the Assad regime's year-long crackdown.
The city, which had a history of defying the regime, was the scene of a 1982 massacre by Mr. Assad's late father and predecessor.
The film is slyly but, for most critics, unmistakably critical of the Putin regime: in one scene, characters use portraits of Russian leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev for target practice, before the hero asks, "Haven't you got anyone more recent?" The film impresses with its political bravery, but also with its austere visuals and Dostoevskian seriousness of tone.
However, George Sabra, the head of the main Syrian opposition group, laid the blame squarely at the Assad regime, saying the scenes "constitute a turning point in the regime's operations".
Even as the Obama Administration publicly defended the Patriot Act and the shaky FISA opinions that propped up the secret surveillance regime, behind the scenes the N.S.A. was being challenged by the FISA court for violating its rules.
