{"id":5250,"date":"2009-01-29T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2009-01-29T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T01:05:06","slug":"did-mugabe-finally-croak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/did-mugabe-finally-croak\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Mugabe Finally Croak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might just be the Miami in me (<a href=\"http:\/\/perezhilton.com\/2007-08-17-is-castro-dead\">Castro is dead&#8230;now!<\/a> &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babalublog.com\/archives\/005912.html\">nnnnow!<\/a> &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSN9745274620070907\">nnnnnnnow!<\/a>), but Zimbabwe suddenly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601116&#038;sid=alAfT0VMGk8Q&#038;refer=africa\">nixing price controls and allowing foreign currency<\/a> to be exchanged freely, with mea culpa from the finance minister and no comment from the 85-year-old dictator himself, makes me think he is either finally deposed or dropped dead. This will help a lot of common Zimbabweans, and erode the state&#8217;s grip on the economy. But maybe, as a friend pointed out, though this seems to be against Mugabe&#8217;s interests, &#8220;they don&#8217;t call them acts of desperation for nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But really, I hope he&#8217;s just dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might just be the Miami in me (Castro is dead&#8230;now! &#8230;nnnnow! &#8230;nnnnnnnow!), but Zimbabwe suddenly nixing price controls and allowing foreign currency to be exchanged freely, with mea culpa from the finance minister and no comment from the 85-year-old dictator himself, makes me think he is either finally deposed or dropped dead. This will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,71],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}