This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article... more
This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article “Mozambique’s peace decades since the end of the conflict: Inclusive or managed democracy?”, and what Brent van den Boon (2011) characterizes as a multi-party democracy. Although both terms “managed democracy” and “multi-party-democracy” make a lot of sense judging from the way international donors and other aid organizations have imposed a dysfunctional system on the people of Mozambique, to me the Mozambican system of government does not deserve to be called a democracy nor a multi-party democracy.
My personal opinion is that there are no such things as a democracy and a multi-party democracy in Mozambique. What everyone else wrongly refers to as democracy and multi-party government is – in reality a single party government in which the power (government) belongs to Frelimo, by Frelimo and for Frelimo (Frelicracy) and its members, their national and international allies and/or collaborators and the like. In this article, I attempt to show that Frelicracy cannot be compared to democracy and that Frelicracy is a new model of “democracy” of the few, by the few and for the few members of the Frelimo party which has continually secured power through successive rigging of elections or election frauds, since the first so-called multi-party elections of 1994. I also argue that given that Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence has a membership of approximately 2 million people in a country with close to 26 million inhabitants Frelicracy is an illegitimate form of government imposed on the people of Mozambique and its governance is not inclusive. As the name implies, Frelicracy is not an international system—it exists only in Mozambique and it benefits only a few Mozambicans, members of the ruling Frelimo party.
Esse artigo objetiva realizar uma pesquisa exploratória sobre perfil neuropsicológico de usuários de drogas ilícitas (cannabis) e lícitas (álcool) a partir de conhecimento do funcionamento das drogas (maconha e álcool) no Sistema Nervoso... more
Esse artigo objetiva realizar uma pesquisa exploratória sobre perfil neuropsicológico de usuários de drogas ilícitas (cannabis) e lícitas (álcool) a partir de conhecimento do funcionamento das drogas (maconha e álcool) no Sistema Nervoso Central (SNC). A partir de instrumentos padronizados, serão avaliadas as funções cognitivas – memória, raciocínio, controle inibitório e controle executivo. Os indivíduos foram selecionados seguindo os critérios de inclusão: adultos, faixa etária de 20 a 35 anos, de ambos os sexos, com escolaridade mínima de ensino médio completo, moradores de Belo Horizonte e região metropolitana, usuários de maconha, álcool isoladamente ou simultaneamente. Em seguida foi realizada uma análise de frequência a partir do perfil dos usuários baseado na média de seus resultados nos testes. Os resultados preliminares mostram os desafios de estudar o efeito das drogas. e o levantamento de hipóteses para futuros estudos sobre o perfil neuropsicológico de usuários de drogas e sua relação com alteração cognitiva.
This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article... more
This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article “Mozambique’s peace decades since the end of the conflict: Inclusive or managed democracy?”, and what Brent van den Boon (2011) characterizes as a multi-party democracy. Although both terms “managed democracy” and “multi-party-democracy” make a lot of sense judging from the way international donors and other aid organizations have imposed a dysfunctional system on the people of Mozambique, to me the Mozambican system of government does not deserve to be called a democracy nor a multi-party democracy.
My personal opinion is that there are no such things as a democracy and a multi-party democracy in Mozambique. What everyone else wrongly refers to as democracy and multi-party government is – in reality a single party government in which the power (government) belongs to Frelimo, by Frelimo and for Frelimo (Frelicracy) and its members, their national and international allies and/or collaborators and the like. In this article, I attempt to show that Frelicracy cannot be compared to democracy and that Frelicracy is a new model of “democracy” of the few, by the few and for the few members of the Frelimo party which has continually secured power through successive rigging of elections or election frauds, since the first so-called multi-party elections of 1994. I also argue that given that Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence has a membership of approximately 2 million people in a country with close to 26 million inhabitants Frelicracy is an illegitimate form of government imposed on the people of Mozambique and its governance is not inclusive. As the name implies, Frelicracy is not an international system—it exists only in Mozambique and it benefits only a few Mozambicans, members of the ruling Frelimo party.
This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article... more
This is not a scholarly article. Rather, it is a short reflection on what many call Democracy in Mozambique, and Madalitso Zililo Phiri and Antonio Macheve Jr have correctly coined it with the term “Managed Democracy” in their article “Mozambique’s peace decades since the end of the conflict: Inclusive or managed democracy?”, and what Brent van den Boon (2011) characterizes as a multi-party democracy. Although both terms “managed democracy” and “multi-party-democracy” make a lot of sense judging from the way international donors and other aid organizations have imposed a dysfunctional system on the people of Mozambique, to me the Mozambican system of government does not deserve to be called a democracy nor a multi-party democracy.
My personal opinion is that there are no such things as a democracy and a multi-party democracy in Mozambique. What everyone else wrongly refers to as democracy and multi-party government is – in reality a single party government in which the power (government) belongs to Frelimo, by Frelimo and for Frelimo (Frelicracy) and its members, their national and international allies and/or collaborators and the like. In this article, I attempt to show that Frelicracy cannot be compared to democracy and that Frelicracy is a new model of “democracy” of the few, by the few and for the few members of the Frelimo party which has continually secured power through successive rigging of elections or election frauds, since the first so-called multi-party elections of 1994. I also argue that given that Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence has a membership of approximately 2 million people in a country with close to 26 million inhabitants Frelicracy is an illegitimate form of government imposed on the people of Mozambique and its governance is not inclusive. As the name implies, Frelicracy is not an international system—it exists only in Mozambique and it benefits only a few Mozambicans, members of the ruling Frelimo party.
