Your country has a problem when inflation is at 1200%, the currency has had to be devalued by 60%, production of important natural resources like gold are down 50% over the past three years, teachers/government employees/soldiers are threatening strikes and revolts, 20% of the population has HIV/AIDS, tens of thousands are fleeing in fear, and all basic necessities of life are no longer available. This is Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Hell on earth. The culmination of radical land redistribution policies and a totalitarian police state.

Watch out Venezuela. This could be your future.

Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has actually reached a point where it cannot be fixed under the current political regime; not simply because Mugabe is pure evil, but because his policies have been so repressive that the situation and any possible fix has slipped completely out of his control.

There is reason to hope that it will not be too long off before his regime completely collapses. Severe discontent has been brewing in the armed forces for the past year, a result of the hyperinflation and lack of pay increases to make up for it. Mugabe gained his soldiers’ loyalty by being able to feed them — no more. The people are either going to have to leave or revolt sometime soon or they will simply starve.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the opposition party against Mugabe, has finally reunited with Morgan Tsvangirai and leader of the split faction Arthur Mutambara meeting together in public at the Save Zimbabwe Convention, embracing, and finally pledging to work together to unseat the tyrant.

Now more than ever do they have a shot at doing so. Every sector of civil society, from students to trade unions to church groups are against Mugabe. The only thing holding them back is the support of the armed forced and police. Mugabe has relied for decades on the use of force. If he no longer has that power, he will no longer be able to rule. If this inflation continues and they are not adequately paid then they will once again begin to revolt over the next few months. That’s when the MDC should begin to take its chances.