Mugabe: Outstaying His Welcome

Published March 30, 2005

Like the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Cuba's Fidel Castro, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is a revolutionary who would have served his people best by dying a long time ago. Instead, at the age of 81, he is now deliberately starving people who refuse to vote for his Zanu-PF party in the parliamentary elections on March 31. Perhaps no one individual can claim the credit for ruining a whole country,...