Week 5 – Zimbabwe: Mugabe Blames West at U.N. Food Summit… Is he forreal???

I have talked about the food crisis before this blog briefly… and there are two OBVIOUS main causes.  One is the extreme weather conditions in Zimbabwe (severe drought and then floods).   That clearly cannot be blamed on anyone except Mother Nature.  However, the second obvious reason is that Mugabe and his government began seizing, often violently, viable, white-owned commercial farms that were the backbone of the Zimbabwean economy and providing food for the country.

These invasions led to killings and also meant the loss of jobs and homes for thousands of black Zimbabwean farm laborers that were working for the white farmers.  Mugabe’s justification for his ambitious land restitution agenda was that just 5,000 white farmers owned 80 percent of Zimbabwe’s most productive agricultural land. He said this colonial legacy had to be reversed.  This is ridiculous because this is when Zimbabwe’s tragic decline started happening and the economy went down and people started starving.

Back to the title… it is painfully obvious about what started the food crisis… but Mugabe had the nerve at the U.N. Food Summit to say the Western Countries are at fault!  He defended his land reform policies… and said that the West was the cause of the food shortage because they are purposely trying to cripple the nation’s economy.  The exact quote from USA Todays article was “Mugabe nonetheless contended that his policies of redistributing land taken from large farm holders were “warmly welcomed by the vast majority of our people” and the sanctions aim to “cripple Zimbabwe’s economy and thereby effect illegal regime change in our country.”"

My point of view is that if your blaming other countries for your countries problems… then you would accept their help in fixing it.  It’s like saying you broke my bicycle… and I am going to make you buy me a new one… but I will not accept your money.  HOW CAN ANYTHING BE ACCOMPLISHED LIKE THAT???  Mugabe needs to articulate what he wants from other countries because his people are the ones suffering, not him, and he is not communicating ANYTHING to anyone…

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