
Tunisia marks ouster of dictator
Jan 14, 2014, 3:28 PM EST

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Three years after the downfall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia still faces serious political problems. But the birthplace of the Arab Spring is also possibly the most functional transitional democracy in the region. Last week saw the orderly cession of power by the Islamist government to make way for a caretaker adminstration as a -- balanced, by many reports -- constituion nears passage.