The ManicaPost
Chenai Mustasa
Post Correspondent
THE United States has always been responsible for setting an atmosphere to effect regime change in the country.
Wherever they have interests in, they make it a point to do whatever it takes to get what they want.
Their activities entail both public and private operations and fortunately for Zimbabwe, we have learnt from previous experiences of other countries that the US has attempted or has done the regime change tactics.
They are trying so much to destabilise the country’s political, economic and social stability, but they will never win.
Initially their regime change operations started in Latin America, thereafter they shaped and installed governments across the world. Could it be the reason they think they are now the headmasters of the world?
The US government was instrumental in ending the rule of Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy.
Significant operations involving the US and UK orchestrated the 1953 Iranian coup d’etat, the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion which targeted Cuba and support for the overthrow of General Suharto in Indonesia.
In addition, the US has also meddled in the national elections of various countries, among them Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, the Philippines in 1953 and Lebanon in 1957 using secret cash infusions.
This is what they are now doing with MDC Alliance through funding their projects. They think that since their regime change agenda was a success in other countries they will win in Zimbabwe as well.
They should dream on.
According to research findings, the US embarked on at least 81 overt and covert interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000. Another study found that during the Cold War, the US engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change.
It will certainly be proper to say that these are the documented or exposed operations and there are more out there. It appears as if without these regime change operations, the American government will have nothing to do.
In June 2018, Ambassador Brian Nichols was appointed as the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe by President Donald Trump.
In July 2020, Nichols was threatened with expulsion from the country after he was accused of helping organisers of an anti-Government march.
“Concerning the machinations and antics of the US Ambassador, Brian Nichols and a coterie of gangsters and mercenaries who are disguised as diplomats, I want to warn them and remind them that it is high time they get to know that Zimbabwe is a sovereign republic and we are a full sovereign State.
“He continues to engage in acts that undermine this Republic. If he continues to undermine the Republic, mobilising and funding disturbances, coordinating violence and training in insurgency, our leadership will not hesitate to give him marching orders,” said acting Zanu-PF national spokesperson, Cde Patrick Chinamasa.
“Don’t dare Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is not one of the states or provinces that make the US. We fought for this country to preserve it, not to surrender it to those whom we tirelessly fought against. Never ever in our lifetime,” said Cde Chinamasa.
Indeed, Zimbabwe is not a state in the US. Zimbabwe is a sovereign State. Zimbabwe is not working on reforms because the US said so, but because they are electoral promises which like any other electoral promise such as infrastructural development and the fight against corruption must be fulfilled. Never will Zimbabwe bend to the will of the American government.
The US has for long been funding MDC-A’s political mobilisation activities under the guise of peace-building. The MDC-A has become a US puppet in the regime change agenda.
The good thing is that the Zimbabwean Government is well aware of all this and is watching closely.
Recently, the US funded the MDC-A congress through CSOs like the Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (COTRAD) and Masvingo Centre for Research and Development (MACRAD), both in Masvingo and both of whom paid the bill for the congress venue. The organisations had applied to the US for funding of a “peace building project” to be implemented in 2020.
The US embassy instructed them to get recommendations from MDC-A, which is alleged to be a victim of political violence. How can the MDC-A be victims of political violence when they are the ones who usually orchestrate the violence?
It is crucial to remember that the US has become what it is today because of the resources it has been looting from the weaker states, think of the slaves and the minerals. They have been looting oil and other resources in various countries.
It would be prudent for the US Government to keep away from Zimbabwe’s affairs. The Zimbabwean people got their freedom through the liberation struggle and they will not allow the white colonialists to effect any form of regime change in the country.
