According to the United Nations it is an inflation rate 2200%, a population verging on famine, and shortages of all the basic goods including gasoline, medicine and hard currency.

At least that is the vision the UN endorsed when it selected Zimbabwe to head the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development over the protests of the United States, Europe and various human rights organizations.

“We’re very disappointed in the election of Zimbabwe as chair,” said the U.S. representative to the commission Dan Reifsnyder, deputy assistant secretary for environment and science at the State Department.

“We really think it calls into question the credibility of this organization to have a representative from a country that has decimated its agriculture, that used to be the breadbasket of Africa and can’t now feed itself,” Reifsnyder said.

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In 2000, Mugabe’s government began violently seizing thousands of white-owned commercial farms as part of a program to redistribute land to poor blacks. The chaotic way the seizures were carried out disrupted the agriculture-based economy in Zimbabwe, a former regional breadbasket. Drought, government corruption and repressive policies have compounded the problems.

I can’t wait until this economic vision makes it the the U.S.

In related United Nations news it is expected that next week Iran will be asked to chair a committee on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and al-Qaeda will host a conference on Religous Tolerance and Non-Violence.

UN, Politics, Zimbabwe

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