Diane on Coups, was, ?

[pms]

Perhaps there is mounting cause to take a look at why coups are common
vehicles for political change here.  75 percent of the people living in
poverty in this oil-rich country may provide a clue.  Undemocratic shifts
like coups may just be related to the democracy within.

Diane

I think that often coups are just semi-covert US policy.  You could tell it
was going to happen months ago.  By the official lines being put into the
media.  By the Bush appointments to Latin America.  I've been waiting for it
ever since the Venezuelan oil minister, leading OPEC, got the producers to
wise up and put forth effective pr, like when they reminded the American
people that most of the cost of gas went to their own government thru taxes.
If there were free elections in the Gulf, they'd probably have lots of coups
too.
Another suspectfor the heart of coup, whoever got all that oil money in the
past.