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

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Dec 2 07:16:33 PST 2005


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



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