Libya is on tenterhooks, as opposed to the meathooks of Gaddafi's rule. How long can he last, holed up in Tripoli? Edit-I did not suggest he ever used meathooks, it's a figure of speech, a metaphor.
Is really not so easy to keep his power by his oppression. Now with internet the (people) of Latin America can hear his crimes against his people. The internet is making pressure to Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua to not support his crime against the human rights.