[R-P] Candidato a pudrirse en el infierno

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

Gentileza de la lista Marxmail

Según informa el New York Times, acaba de morir Ian Smith, el antiguo
primer ministro de la rebelde colonia británica de Rhodesia, que
alguna vez predijo que la dominación blanca en África duraría un
milenio. Tenía 88 años y estiró la miserable pata en Sudáfrica.

El presidente de Zimbabwe (la antigua Rhodesia), el asediado Robert
Mugabe, seguramente, sonríe complacido junto a su pueblo. Y piensa en
cuántos tipos, hoy, siguen pensando como Smith pero no lo dicen.

Versión completa en inglés:


2007/11/21, Louis Proyect <lnp3 en panix.com>:
> NY Times, November 21, 2007
> Ian Smith, Defiant Symbol of White Rule in Africa, Is Dead at 88
> By ALAN COWELL
>
> Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of
> Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for
> 1,000 years, died yesterday in South Africa. He was 88.
>
> The cause was a stroke suffered at a nursing home near Cape Town, said
> Sam Whaley, a friend and former senator in Mr. Smith's Rhodesian Front
> government.
>
> Mr. Smith's resistance to black rule led to a unilateral declaration of
> independence from Britain in 1965 and, later, severe repression and a
> seven-year guerrilla war, costing about 30,000 lives, most of them black
> fighters and civilians.
>
> Second only to the apartheid rulers of South Africa, Mr. Smith became a
> symbol, both to black Africans and many others, of iniquitous white rule.
>
> full: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/world/africa/21smith.html
>
>
> Lenin's Tomb commentary:
> http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/11/empire-builder-dies.html
>
> ________________________________________________
> YOU MUST clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.
> Send list submissions to: Marxism en lists.econ.utah.edu
> Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism
>


-- 
Néstor