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Shut Up, Chavez

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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez been told to shut up - and not by the King of Spain this time. But, instead, by the people of Venezuela, who have voted against his plans to officially turn their country into a socialist state. Why? Because Chavez’s policies are not working:
Inflation is believed to be more than 20 [...]

It’s Up To Africa To Ask For Help Over Zimbabwe

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The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, writes in the Guardian about how “saving Zimbabwe is not colonialism, [but] Britain’s duty”:
In one of his last actions as Prime Minister, Tony Blair visited Africa to defend his ‘thoroughly interventionist’ foreign policy towards the continent. At the end of his trip, at a press conference with South [...]

Zimbabwe Is Dying, Blair Doesn’t Care

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More people die every month in Zimbabwe than in either Darfur or Iraq. Rape, torture, and murder by government officials is commonplace. Mugabe has systematically destroyed the Zimbabwean economy by evicting white farmers and giving their farms to political friends, and once prosperous farms become desolate- and he wants to do the same to foreign-owned [...]