Always classy - Mr. Robert Mugabe
He turned 85 this month and, yep, you guessed it, spent $250K on a party while hospitals are closing because they have no medicines.
From
CNN World News:
Mugabe hosts lavish party despite national crisis
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it raised at least $250,000 to hold the party in Mugabe's hometown of Chinhoyi, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) outside of the capital, Harare.
Critics of the president say the country is desperate for that amount of money to be spent instead on its citizens, who are suffering from a cholera outbreak, food shortages, and spiraling hyperinflation. On Friday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai visited a hospital's closed intensive care unit that he said needed $30,000 to resume operating.
I would not wish the fires of hell on anyone but in Mr. Mugabe's case, I'll make an exception...
Posted by DaveH at February 28, 2009 1:30 PM