{"id":194792,"date":"2008-08-18T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/18\/zimbabwe-negotiations-appear-to-go-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T04:11:00","slug":"zimbabwe-negotiations-appear-to-go-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/18\/zimbabwe-negotiations-appear-to-go-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Negotiations Appear to Go Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsvangerai is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/17\/world\/africa\/17zimbabwe.html?hp\">insisting on real executive power as prime minister<\/a>, which makes sense, as he won the election, but this is a major sticking point, which is why the <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hVdqN8KiOLmn0bwWl5NULhTvuh7A\">SADC summit ended without a deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h8qP9q5U1hV8Uor3yPwzIjxLzH4w\">the SADC is pressuring Tsvangerai to cut a deal with Mugabe that does not involve real power for the MDC<\/a>, with the threat that the splinter MDC-Mutambara would ally with the ZANU-PF in parliament otherwise, which indicates to me that the SADC, or some of the members of the SADC, don&#8217;t really care about the quality of governance in Zimbabwe, they just want the problem to go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsvangerai is insisting on real executive power as prime minister, which makes sense, as he won the election, but this is a major sticking point, which is why the SADC summit ended without a deal. So the SADC is pressuring Tsvangerai to cut a deal with Mugabe that does not involve real power for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1000,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}