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India-Pakistan
Democratic corruption
2016-04-30
[DAWN] "Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside / A teeming mistress, but a barren bride" -- Alexander Pope

FROM Brazil to Malaysia, democracy around the world is under threat. Not from the march of army columns, but from the greed and corruption of a rapacious global political elite. While nation-destroying corruption of leaders such as Ferdinand Marcos, Mobutu Sese Seko, Sani Abacha, Alberto Fujimori, or Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
 was the accepted ’norm’ till the 1990s for a select band of unfortunate Third World countries whose people had been made destitute by their leaders’ insatiable greed, the latest wave of democracy was thought to have brought in a newer, and less-tainted, leadership.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Yes, an amazing story of economic success and democracy at work; the exodus of evil colonials from Zim. Those that assisted in the transition should be quite proud.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-30 08:44  

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