Telling The Truth To Bobby Mugabe

(Mutare, Zimbabwe) United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell, told a gathering of academics and students at Africa University that Zimbabwe's disastrous economic decline was caused by gross mismanagement and corruption by the government of Robert Mugabe. Dell said that neither drought nor western sanctions caused the country's problems. Truer words have never been spoken.

Mugabe was not amused and, via state radio, he said, "Mr. Dell, go to hell."

Meanwhile, over 150 people were arrested throughout Zimbabwe by riot police for trying to demonstrate against the worsening economic crisis. The entire leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) was detained for calling on its membership to march without getting permission, contrary to strict security laws. The union leaders said they just wanted to remind the government that they were "hungry, angry and tired."

I believe Mugabe already knows quite well that his citizenry is hungry, angry and tired and it's a condition he wants to continue.