Mr. President. with skyrocketing inflation and unemployment. riots over land reform and food shortages. and streams of economic and political refugees fleeing into neighboring countries. the primary constant in Zimbabwe over the last 30 years has been the Increasingly despotic and disastrous rule of President Robert Mugabe. A decade ago. high interest rates and inflation galvanized public support for the Zimbabwean Congress of Trade Unions led by Morgan Tsvangirai. who was chosen in 1999 to lead a new opposition partythe Movement for Democratic Change. or MDC. In 2002 and 2005. President Mugabes ruling ZANUPF party rigged Presidential and Parliamentary elections to maintain its grip on power. and while be tried to do it again on March 29 of this year. the MDC and the people of Zimbabwe refused to be intimidated or outmaneuvered.
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