Egypt controls
Suez Canal
that think is better than gold mine!!!
that brings tons of cash daily...
I think that the dictator was keeping all that for himself and people around him instead of investing in that country and giving that money to the people.
With that money invested right way, he could have developed democratic country the country, but because of his greed and shortsightedness they are still undeveloped and poor country...
"
In 2008, a total of 21,415 vessels passed through the canal and the receipts from the canal totaled $5.381 billion., with the average cost per-ship at roughly $251,000.00."
- Wikipedia
so that's like
5k billion dollars a year !?!?!?