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mercoledì, marzo 30, 2005
La giornata di riflessione. Vigilia di un voto senza speranza nello Zimbabwe. In linea con la tradizione staliniana o kimjongiliana, Mugabe continua ad usare la fame come arma politica. Anche se a leggere la BBC sembra una festa, la realtà è quella di un paese ridotto ai minimi termini in cui - nonostante tutto - si trova ancora qualcuno che ha voglia di lottare. Per seguire le prossime ore non dimenticate questo blog. Mentre il CS Monitor spiega come e perché la Cina sta intervenendo nella politica africana:
Last year, China stymied US efforts to levy sanctions on Sudan, which supplies nearly 5 percent of China's oil and where the US says genocide has occurred in its Darfur region. And as Zimbabwe becomes more isolated from the West, China has sent crates of T-shirts for ruling-party supporters who will vote in Thursday's parliamentary elections. In addition, China or its businesses have reportedly: • provided a radio-jamming device for a military base outside the capital, preventing independent stations from balancing state-controlled media during the election campaign; • begun to deliver 12 fighter jets and 100 trucks to Zimbabwe's Army amid a Western arms embargo; and • designed President Robert Mugabe's new 25-bedroom mansion, complete with helipad. The cobalt-blue tiles for its swooping roof, which echoes Beijing's Forbidden City, were a Chinese gift. With an economy that has shrunk as much as 40 percent in five years, Zimbabwe's government uses these promises to put off critics. "The government says, 'The Chinese are coming, and they'll bring in billions of dollars in investment, and soon everything will be fully restored' "... |
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