Re: [lbo-talk] (Guardian) Comment is free: Should egalitarians support Chávez?

W. Kiernan wkiernan at ij.net
Sun Jan 14 10:07:36 PST 2007


Michael Pugliese wrote:

>

> Venezuela's poor do not live in a better society. They

> live in a society whose government is systematically

> squandering the nation's largest oil boom since the

> seventies while at the same time restricting basic

> political freedoms. Those of us who want to build a

> truly democratic and egalitarian future for Latin

> America should support democratic movements committed

> to the respect of civil and political liberties and

> whose leaders genuinely care about the region's poor.

> We should not support Hugo Chávez.

OK then, which political party currently existing in Venezuela should we support?

Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net



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