Mugabe's options
Elections supposedly give voters the right to choose. But after 28 years of increasingly dictatorial rule, economic mismanagement, human rights abuses and international sanctions, the choice of what kind of future awaits Zimbabwe still rests with one man: Robert Mugabe.
The 84-year-old president's hold on power, once both legitimate and unchallengeable, has been severely weakened by his own failures, isolation and paranoia, and now by an apparently stunning electoral reverse. All the stuffed ballot boxes in the world may not drown out Saturday's cry of rage.
Yesterday's official silence concerning the presidential election results suggests even the most expert vote-riggers, their dubious skills honed in earlier stolen contests, are at a stand over how to make defeat add up to victory.… Seguir leyendo »