Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

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If you think your economy has it bad where every you are in the word, try having a democracy with 80 percent of the people unable to find work, and a cost of living that has doubled in two months time and dictator whose associates beat to death his opposition’s wife!

Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 to win political independence for Zimbabwe only to now refuse to leave his post by force though free elections are supposed to happen this Friday. All this is going on during what many view as the worst social and economic crash in modern history:

This is from a June 22, Yahoo News Report:

(Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s currency plunged to new depths on Friday as
the U.S. ambassador to Harare predicted galloping inflation will force
President Robert Mugabe from office before the end of the year.

The Zimbabwe dollar, which is pegged to the U.S dollar and was effectively
devalued by the central bank to 15,000 to the greenback in April, was
trading in the 170,000-200,000 range on the thriving black market on Friday.
Just a week before, the black market exchange rate was about 95,000 to one
U.S dollar, and 2,500 to one in January.

The country is now in it’s eighth year of recession with food, oil an even electricity at all-time desperate lows. Political freedom from Mugabe is the suggested answer but that may but many in the region wonder if that’s possible.

Charlie Rose conducted a roundtable on his PBS talk show last night to try to dig for solutions to this nightmare. Rather than give my view, I feel this situation in speaks well enough on its own. Please view the video below and comment. Until then… keep waxing poetically!

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