Venezuelan strike beginning to fail

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Dec 29 13:47:20 PST 2002


On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> Michael Pollak>...[Just a footnote -- the oft-cited statistic that 60% of
> Venezuelans are opposed to Chavez and 30% support him is based on phone
> polls, afaict.

Fwiw, Steve Ellner in his article in the current Nation puts forward the off the cuff but on the surface more in accord with appearances estimate that 50% of the population is in the middle, doesn't wholly sympathize with either side, and fears civil war, with a quarter on both sides being vehement.

Michael



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