WI the planned coup in Zimbabwe in 2007 went ahead?

Democracy? I find that to be... unlikely. As the wikipedia article says they wanted their hand picked minister 'to form a government with the heads of the armed forces', and governments of national salvation or whatever they call themselves led by the military rarely seem to ever get around to giving up power once having overthrown the previous dictatorship or democratic government. By this point Mugabe has pretty much been made a finger puppet of the military and security services, reads more like one bunch of crooks plotting against another bunch of crooks to set themselves up as his successors when he shuffles off the mortal coil or retires from government.
 
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