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Newsnotes a Bi-Monthly Newsletter of Information on International Justice and Peace Issues Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Peace, Social Justice and Integrity of Creation Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns 200 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 NewsNotes A bi-monthly newsletter of information on international justice and peace issues November-December 2019 Vol. 44, No. 6 The Death of Robert Mugabe................................................................3 Chile: Massive Protests Over Inequality................................................4 Bolivian Elections Spark Unrest............................................................5 Climate Change and the Oceans...........................................................6 Calls for Action at the UN General Assembly .......................................7 Hong Kong Cardinal Calls for Nonviolence...........................................8 Bishops Comment on Crisis in Haiti......................................................8 Sudan and South Sudan: History and Future.......................................9 Supreme Court to Decide Fate for Dreamers.....................................10 Go to our website to sign up for a free e-subscription to NewsNotes. Amazon Synod Concludes in Rome....................................................10 Other updates are also available at www.maryknollogc.org What is at Stake in the Amazon.........................................................11 Journey for Justice in El Paso..............................................................12 Paper subscriptions to NewsNotes are available for those who do not have regular access to email or the internet. Resources .........................................................................................13 Please send your name, address and $20 for a one-year subscription to NewsNotes, 200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20001. Published by the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns: Peace, Social Justice & Integrity of Creation 200 New York Avenue, N.W. 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His conciliatory speech to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) the previous year after the country after winning the elections in 1980 was in spending three weeks in detention for my work with the the same mold and convinced people, both within and Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. Mugabe outside Zimbabwe, that he was a man who could be spoke to me about the type of society he envisioned trusted. for a liberated Zimbabwe, comparing the socialism that I interviewed Robert Mugabe for various publica- ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) espoused tions for several years before and after Independence. to the life of the early Christian community described He always received me graciously and gave thoughtful in the Acts of the Apostles. He also promised that a and thought-provoking replies. After the first decade of ZANU government would not seize the property and Independence, however, I never met him again and I institutions of the Catholic Church as the liberation found it difficult to reconcile the person that I had known party in Mozambique had done. He assured me that the with the angry and vindictive person that I saw in the Church had nothing to fear in a liberated Zimbabwe and news. I wondered how a person who was so intelligent, was grateful for the support that the who had promoted reconciliation guerrillas were receiving from rural between the races and championed Catholic missions. education and health care for all, I was charmed by his words as could allow corruption to flourish well as by his scholarly and dapper ap- and could sanction the destruction pearance. I had heard from priests in and violence that characterized Rhodesia that he had attended a Marist much of his long reign in power. Brothers school next to his home in I used to think that he was Kutama, about an hour outside of not aware of the violence that was Harare, and had taught in Catholic unleashed in Matabeleland in the schools in the Gweru Diocese before few years after Independence and he left to teach in Ghana. had not given the orders to deploy He returned to Rhodesia in the Fifth Brigade. Subsequent the early 1960s with his wife, Sally accounts, however, clearly indicate Hayfron, who was from a prominent that he knew and approved of the Ghanaian family and converted to brutal tactics that were used by the marry him. She became a devout Catholic and an active army on civilians and that would be used again in 2008 supporter of Zimbabwe’s struggle for liberation. Many after a bruising election campaign in which the opposi- feel that she was a moderating influence on her husband, tion won enough votes to necessitate a run-off. I chaired giving him sound and helpful guidance and advice. a human rights group at the time that provided treatment Mugabe was arrested in 1964 and spent the next to the victims of military violence and saw for myself ten years in prison. I learned that in prison he adopted the horrific brutality that was meted out on people who a routine of daily exercise, meditation and study that he were suspected of having voted for the opposition. maintained throughout his long life. He gained several While Robert Mugabe is being declared a hero by degrees while in prison and gave lessons to others. I was his successor and by many regional leaders, I doubt if told that he neither smoke nor drank alcohol and I saw his own people will be so forgiving - nor will I. A man that he was well read and interested in world issues. who had raised such high hopes for peace, reconcilia- He also had a keen interest in theology and scripture, tion and development in 1980 has instead left a legacy assisting the priests who celebrated Mass in the prison of violence, poverty, corruption, hunger and hopeless- each day. ness.§ Mugabe’s speeches to the ZANU staff in Maputo on the anniversary of various liberation heroes’ deaths were full of moral imperatives and references to www.maryknollogc.org 3 November-December 2019 NewsNotes Chile: Massive Protests Over Inequality Protests in Chile over a spike in transportation costs reflect deeper problems with rising economic inequality. On October 6, the Ministry of Transport and Com- which has been met with worldwide astonishment. munication in Santiago, Chile, announced a 3.5 percent Both the OECD and APEC are international metro fare hike, bringing the cost to $1.16 per ticket, bodies where nations collaborate on trade and economic more than double the price of the fares in Buenos Aires, policies, particularly free trade and other neoliberal Argentina or Lima, Peru. Beginning on October 11, economic policies. Some people point to the neoliberal students in Chile began protesting the new price by reforms that started during the dictatorship as one major jumping metro turnstiles and taking over stations. factor in the rising inequality today. But the economic The government’s response to the protests exacer- model established under the dictatorship has continued bated the situation. Referencing the protesters, President through both right- and left-leaning
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