[thisisit]

As they say - Either you die (or step down in this case) a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

There are multiple cases in developing countries where the family/friends takes over in case of someone powerful going senile.

[gaius]

When was Mugabe a hero? Like, what year and what heroic thing did he do?

[steve19]

> Either you die (or step down in this case) a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Evil is a choice, not a consequence of time. He destroyed that country, at the expense of the poor and to the profit of his cronys.

I wonder if this will impact North Korea. Zimbabwe is a major source of hard currency in exchange for weapons.

[microcolonel]

> I wonder if this will impact North Korea. Zimbabwe is a major source of hard currency in exchange for weapons.

I smell CIA. :- )

[forapurpose]

> Either you die (or step down in this case) a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

In many countries these days, you are simply voted out of office or leave it when your term is up.

[b3lvedere]

Which is why there must be good rules that people can't stay in power for too long. Power will corrupt eventually even the nicest of people.