What Mugabe has wrought

Zimbabwe is a basket case thugocracy. In the last 12-15 years or so (because the first 12 years of his rule were not a complete disaster), Robert Mugabe has taken the former breadbasket of southern Africa and a country with both great natural resources and a solid labor base and transformed it into a wasteland with no facilities, inadequate food production, nonexistent commerce and rampant poverty combined with an inflation rate that resembles Weimar Germany.