what is the story on "top union leadership" in venezuela? bill jordan
chris niles
>Messsage du 30/11/2000 02:58
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>Objet : spooks act against Venezuela
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> 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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> http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/001130/world/afp/Global_unions_group_warns_Venezuela_will_face_isolation_over_union-overhaul_vote.html
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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."...
>