Reply #16: The neoliberals have been screaming "mass starvation" for almost two years

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It's time to let go of that one. It's not happening.

Obviously, the economy is suffering in the transition, but millions aren't dying (as the Western press promised).

Furthermore, this land was being used for TOBACCO farming, and the huge profits from it were being deposited into Swiss bank accounts. Now the land is being used for subsistence maize farming, and is creating wealth for Zimbabweans.

It was neoliberalism that was going to starve and impoverish them.

"Let them eat cake" was the sentiment of the huge corporate farms which sold tobacco to Europe. Now, Mugabe's telling the subsistence farmers replacing them, 'let them eat maize.'