Welcome to Zimbabwe. By the way, the currency is worthless, there’s no food and there may not be enough gas to get you to Victoria Falls and back. Enjoy your stay.
For Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s UN-critical caucus, this was sweet vindication. Mugabe is a poster boy for corrupt, brutal misrule. He has run Zimbabwe into the ground, turning Africa’s breadbasket into a wasteland. Millions are jobless, hungry and ill. And he’s under a travel ban in the United States and Europe. How can the UN have been so perverse as to make him the face of global tourism? It seemed to make the Tories’ case that the UN has lost its way.