| | Mozambique Report: The Murder of Carlos Cardoso |
 | | Mozambique had been a Soviet client state since independence, but Chissano's rise to power coincided with Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reforms, which were followed by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War; Mozambique had little choice but to court the victorious Western powers. |
| | Cardoso forced Mozambique to consider the possibility that its growth is being driven not by sound economic policy, but by drug trafficking and money laundering, and that the benefits of the growth are largely limited to a tiny elite. |
| | Today, Mozambique has one of the fastest growing economies in the world—a 7 percent GDP growth rate in 1996 and an estimated 10.4 percent growth rate in 2001, according to the World Bank. |
| www.cpj.org /Briefings/2002/moz_may02/moz_may02.html (4126 words) |
