AFL-CIO Statement on Worker Rights in Venezuela

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Wed May 1 12:43:24 PDT 2002


in a post on March 27th in the defunct thread "Naomi Klein in Argentina" i posted:

> It's also happening in Venezuela, where classic CIA destabilization

> is underway using oligarch-controlled media & corrupt union bosses

> etc, and the repeatedly elected government of Chavez is already

> being called "authoritarian" & accused of endangering "freedom of

> the press" and so on. It will be interesting to see who - if

> anyone - here will start spouting this stuff ...

i was wrong, it wasn't interesting - just Nathan :)

> Quoting the very knowledgable Jim Petras (in a piece to be

> published in MR in May) on the question that Doug asks: "The

> reversion to client military dictatorships with a civic facade will

> not prevent the Bush Administration from claiming to be 'defending

> democracy and free markets'. The U.S. mass media can and will

> embellish on this and any variety of related motifs."

this prescient piece by Petras ("U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization") is now up on the MR website at http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502petras.htm

john mage



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