[lbo-talk] American hit parade

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Leigh Meyers" <leighcmeyers at gmail.com>
>
>More on Chavez:
> >From Bloomberg... Breaking:
>
>Venezuela's Chavez Squeezes Oil Companies With Taxes, Raids
>Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- On July 14 in the western city of Maracaibo, 
>Venezuelan government tax auditors and a prosecutor went to the offices of 
>Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company.
>
>They seized boxes of records to build a case that San Ramon, 
>California-based Chevron and 21 other energy companies owe Venezuela $3 
>billion in back taxes. The raid is part of President Hugo Chavez's push to 
>squeeze more money out of foreign companies that want to pump oil from the 
>world's fifth-largest petroleum exporter.
><...>
>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=71000001&refer=&sid=a3z63_HrIvtc

Gee, maybe they should parachute in world-famous author, physiologist, 
evolutionary biologist and biogeographer Jared Diamond -- friend of 
indigenous peoples and Fortune 500 CEOs alike -- to act as peacemaker.  
Diamond is a huge admirer of Chevron:

<http://www.counterpunch.org/proyect05092005.html>

Carl