[lbo-talk] army to the left? or to the right?

[joanna]

I was asking a knowledgeable friend about how to account for the 
Venezuelan army's swing to the left, when the military of so many other 
Latin American countries swung in the other direction, and he guessed 
that it had something to do with the fact that the officer corps in 
Venezuela is not drawn from the elites but from the aspiring lower 
classes of the countryside and the cities.

Does any one know or have the research skills to determine where the 
U.S. officer corps is drawn from?

Joanna