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A faded portrait of President Robert Mugabe looks down over a hotel reception
desk June 19, 2008 northwest of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Mugabe, 84, has ruled
Zimbabwe
since the nation's independence from the United Kingdom in 1980. With
his disasterous economic policies driving the once-prosperous nation into a
state of abject poverty and his widespread use of political oppression, the
international community has labeled him as one of the world's worst
despots. |
