London, Europe Brief News – More than 90 countries have witnessed over the past weeks growing protests as the fuel crisis is deepening.
Around the world, demonstrators have called for change. They’ve demanded that petrol be made more affordable or available at all.
They’ve sat in peaceful protests and they’ve attacked governments and some protests turned violent.
By analysing data on demonstrations worldwide, people in more than 90 countries and territories took to the streets over the price or availability of fuel.
A third were countries which had no protests at all over fuel in 2021. For example, Spain had none in 2021, but saw 335 individual rallies just in March this year.
Aside from Antarctica, not a single continent has remained free of fuel protests in the last nine months.
In Indonesia there have been more than 600 protests over petrol so far this year compared to just 19 in 2021. In Italy, there were over 200 in the first eight months of 2022 compared to just two last year. And in Ecuador, there were over 1,000 protests over fuel in the month of June alone.
Most surprising to Henry Wilkinson, the chief intelligence officer from Dragonfly, a security and intelligence service, is where the protests are occurring.
“What is unusual this time is that we are seeing protests in places that are usually not prone to protests. The war in Ukraine has had a huge disproportionate impact. A resolution to the conflict would ease the global crisis significantly,” he says.
