<HTML>In a message dated 4/25/2002 3:05:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, nathan@newman.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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? </BLOCKQUOTE> 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.                                      Che </HTML>