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Jeff Flake: “When I did, after all that we knew about what was going on and heard about from afar, when I arrived there and saw still…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2018
When I did, after all that we knew about what was going on and heard about from afar, when I arrived there and saw still things functioning as well as they were was a testament to what you are talking about, the resourcefulness of the Zimbabwean people to work around the issues that they dealt with on a daily basis and a government that was not responsive to their needs or concerns.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake reflects on the resilience of Zimbabweans despite government inaction.

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