The New Zimbabwe ... Same As The Old Zimbabwe

clipped from pajamasmedia.com Well, it looked promising there for a day or two, but reality (like most African leaders, Mugabe thinks he’s President For Life) is setting in. He has no intention of leaving power. Last news I say online said that the hotel with most foreign correspondents had been surrounded by “security forces.” Here’s an update from Ground Zero, as usual anonymous for obvious reasons: Last night, optimism boiled over, at least for a moment. When my friend D walked into a home where a group of us had gathered to say farewell to an 84-year-old woman about to decamp to South Africa, he high-fived everyone in the room. ³The New Zimbabwe!² he proclaimed, unable to stop smiling. Shortly thereafter, police raided the campaign headquarters of the MDC, the leading opposition party, at the fanciest hotel in Harare. Simultaneously, security forces stormed into a hotel filled with foreign journalists, whose presence here violates the law because they are operating without licenses, and took several of them away