The dude with the Hitler 'stache is Robert Mugabe, president/brutal dictator of Zimbabwe, a pleasant little place next to South Africa that was once called the breadbasket of Africa. Not so much now. After a decade of increasingly incompetent misrule which featured a botched land grab, thuggish political militias, and failed price controls, Mugabe now presides over 80% unemployment and 100,000% inflation.
This Saturday, Zimbabwe held elections for local, regional, and national office. The run up was hardly free or fair. The main opposition leader had his head cracked open and the state run media was a propaganda fest (are you taking notes Russia?). However, many are projecting an outright opposition victory. Now it's up to the US, EU, African Union, and South Africa to speak up and demand that the will of the people of Zimbabwe be heard. Thabo Mbeki needs to finally grow a spine and condemn this tyrant. Just because Mugabe fought the British does not mean he deserves a free pass to destroy a nation and a people.
