{"id":195568,"date":"2008-06-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/29\/your-late-nite-zimbabwe-update\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T04:00:00","slug":"your-late-nite-zimbabwe-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/29\/your-late-nite-zimbabwe-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Late Nite Zimbabwe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/06\/29\/africa\/AF-GEN-Zimbabwe-Election-Results.php\">Officials: Mugabe has won his phony election<\/a>, and has been sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>It also that <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200806271174.html\">Tsvangirai has hardened his stance a bit<\/a>, saying that there will be no unity government with the MDC as a junior partner.<\/p>\n<p>Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/world\/africa\/29diplo.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">calling for more sanctions<\/a>, but they are not enough.  If Bush were to threaten sanctions against banks with subsidiaries doing business in Zimbabwe, the cash that the ZANU-PF uses to reward loyalists, and Mugabe would be out in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSL2772006020080627\">has declared that the &#8220;international community has the right now to override the sovereignty argument of the country.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a first step, he would shut down commerical air transport from Zimbabwe, which would mean that, &#8220;Mugabe and his sidekicks would not be able to &#8212; as they are now &#8212; escape the rigors of their own policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Officials: Mugabe has won his phony election, and has been sworn in. It also that Tsvangirai has hardened his stance a bit, saying that there will be no unity government with the MDC as a junior partner. Bush is calling for more sanctions, but they are not enough. If Bush were to threaten sanctions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1032,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195568"}],"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=195568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}