Carlos Ortega, CTV/AD Venezuela

SergioL652 at aol.com SergioL652 at aol.com
Thu Dec 5 11:18:54 PST 2002


In a message dated 12/5/2002 12:06:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, nathanne at nathannewman.org writes:


> The CTV was forced by Chavez to hold new elections for leadership-- which
> Chavez forces lost despite great pressure from the government. There are
> pro-Chavez parts of the unions, but not a majority. That's called
> democracy, just as it's democracy that Chavez has been elected to run the
> government.
>
> US-allied elites in Venezuela should not be seeking to oust democratically
> elected Presidents like Chavez, but the left should not be advocating
> ousting democratically-elected union leaders either.
>
> When did the left lose all moral credibility in favor of pure opportunism?
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>

So supporting the coup against Chávez (then backing out when they so it would fail) is an appropriate response? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20021205/ec232b76/attachment.htm>



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