Venezuela & AFL-CIO

SergioL652 at aol.com SergioL652 at aol.com
Thu Apr 25 17:38:38 PDT 2002


In a message dated 4/25/2002 3:05:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, nathan at newman.org writes:


> Now, did the CTV second the US government's foreign policy goals? Or did
> they just happen to align against Chavez? And was it the foreign policy of
> the US to yank support for the coup when the business types grabbed control
> in the chaos?
>
>

The CTV, from what I read in Spanish language news reports from various sources supported the first two general strikes earlier this year and the April 11 coup. I still have not seen any evidence that they changed their minds. It appears that the CTV membership is solidly middle class and affected by some of the changes Chavez brought. Also, there has been a fair amount of red-baiting in Venezuela, with the most common complaint I hear from the Anti-Chavez crowd that he named known leftists for his cabinet and, of course, his friendship with Castro.

Déjenme decirles, a riesgo de parecer ridículo, que el revolucionario verdadero está guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor.

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