Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, watched by a police woman and a bodyguard, arrives for the opening of Parliament, July 22, 2003. Mugabe addressed the house with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai listening from the public gallery. The MDC legislators did not carry out previously threatened disruptions. REUTERS/str
Residents of the Mbare suburb in Harare, queue to buy sugar Friday July 11, 2003. Zimbabwe braced for at least a 500 percent increase in the price of corn meal as the government appeared Friday to have given up enforcing its price freeze on key foods in the beleaguered economy. (AP Photo)
John does his shopping in a government supermarket in a poor neighborhood in Caracas, Thursday, July 3, 2003. Food basic products in Venezuela, such as flour (which is used for typical foods such as 'arepa') are beginning to be scarce. Most poor people eat 'arepa' as a basic meal. Venezuela's economic crisis, the worst in decades, has spared no one _ posing the greatest challenge to President Hugo Chavez's grand design of bridging the gap between wealthy and poor in this South American nation. ( AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)