Saturday marks Robert Mugabe’s 83rd birthday. He’s the president of Zimbabwe and he will be celebrating with a US$1.2 million party, while the majority of his country’s people starve. He deserves it, right?
“The number of Zimbabwe dollars that bought a three-bedroom house with a swimming pool and tennis court in 1990 will buy a brick today.” BusinessWeek
Zimbabwe’s inflation is now 1,600%. Yes, you read that correctly: one thousand six hundred percent.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, or MDC — Mugabe’s only offical opposition party — tried to stage a political rally to announce his candidacy for president in the election due next year, but it was thwarted by tear gas- and water cannon-enabled police officers.
We’re spending $1 billion a day “fighting a war” in the Middle East, but because Zimbabwe doesn’t have any oil, no one will say or do a thing.
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