Dibs on Miss Peru

Just as we’d hoped, The Economist decided to memorialize the late Gabonese president Omar Bongo in its current issue. And as befits an old-school strongman who appeared to care not a whit for his people’s welfare, the obituary is fairly damning—though, granted, not as gloves-off as the magazine’s posthumous takedown of Prabhakaran. The choicest bit, which follows a sentence mentioning that Bongo—president of a nation where 70 percent of the population lives in poverty—had upwards of $130 million