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Weimar Zimbabwe

27 Mar 2008 11:01 am

Zimbabwe holds elections this Saturday. Inflation is at 200,000 percent:

A journalist friend I was traveling with, N., said that on Friday, he had lunch at a hotel in Harare, where a local beer cost 2 million Zimbabwean dollars (less than $1). He passed by the hotel after work the same day and the same beer was going for more than 4 million.

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