spooks act against Venezuela

[John Mage]

You may have noticed that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been
getting increasingly in the face of the US global secret police.
Breaking bread with Castro (and providing oil to Cuba on generous
terms), visiting Iraq - among the first of a flood that is shaking a
central aspect of the embargo, and this week challenging the 'drug war'
right wing Colombian government (Chavez said that Colombia was ruled by
a "rancid oligarchy" responsible for the tragic state of affairs in that
country; Colombia withdrew its Ambassador to Venezuela).

For sure there has been a task force working on the Chavez problem
somewhere in northern Virginia. Today they struck...sort of (no
assassination attempts yet - they have no replacement ready). But this
sputter from their longtime cold war whore, the "International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions" ("free" as in "free world").

This will be an intereseting test: who will the spooks be able to line
up for this operation - which "human rights" organizations? the AFL-CIO?

john mage 

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Thursday, November 30 7:22 AM SGT 

Global unions group warns Venezuela will face isolation over
union-overhaul vote

CARACAS, Nov 29 (AFP) - 

A global union federation pledged support for Venezuelan unions here
Wednesday and warned President Hugo Chavez' government would face
international isolation if voting on a referendum to overhaul top union
leadership proceeds as scheduled.

"We have not come to interfere with Venezuela's internal affairs," said
Bill Jordan, secretary general of the International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions (ICFTU).

But he said that if Sunday's referendum vote, proposed by Chavez, is
carried out, "we will be compelled to launch a worldwide campaign using all
the sanctions we can impose."

He added that the group would call upon world leaders to "cut off
Venezuela until the labor rights of all Venezuelans are restored."...