Mugabe orders more demolitions

Obviously talks are going well with China, who is propping up Mugabe and who will dismiss any UN Security Council talks about the cruel treatment of the urban poor of Zimbabwe. The Mugabe government has continued its demolition of shanty towns, most recently at Porta Farm, a settlement that was originally created back in 1991 when Mugabe wanted to move the urban poor out of site of the visiting queen of England.

As revolting as the Chinese policy is, unfortunately all of the world powers have been down this path or are actively propping up rogue governments. Just nearby in southern Africa is the case of Angola, the "communist" government who has left its people to fend for themselves in the war torn country which is littered with mines from the years of war. The farmers struggle and the locals have lost fishing rights because the newly rich government leaders have sold off the fishing rights to the EU. So how does the US respond to such a government that loses millions of oil revenue that was supposed to be distributed to its starving nation? It gives Angola preferred trading status, of course.