Hafez Al-Akim

Hafez Al-Akim was the President of Karuchea from 1990-2003. He was the right-hand of Muhammed El-Shabazz and was designated his successor. In 1990, he promised a continuation of Arab Nationalism and Islamic Socialism, but with the fall of the Soviet Union and certain economic aid, he backed off of this and began to privatize the economy. Despite strikes he continued this in the name of Arab Nationalism until 1994 when he dismissed this and called the idea of Pan-Arabism "A dream and nothing more" and delivered the State of Karuchea in 1994 on the failures of Pan-Arabism. The military soon revolted under Mohammed Nyerere and overthrew and executed Hafez Al-Akim.