Reply #42: You always introduce a lot of important points to consider. Here's an article which refers to some [View All]

of the things you discussed!

06/09/07
Wall Street Journal's Looking Glass World
Stephen Lendman

She's at it again on the Journal's editorial page in her June 4 article called "The Young and the Restless," subtitled "Is this the beginning of the end for Hugo Chavez?" The writer is self-styled Latin American expert Mary Anastasia O'Grady always getting top grades in vilification and disinformation but failing ones on regional knowledge and legitimate journalism.
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For starters, a moderately large protest march took place in Caracas May 28 after Radio Caracas Television's (RCTV) VHF Channel 2 went off the air at midnight May 27. A much larger crowd of supporters dwarfed the opposition, unmentioned in O'Grady's column....
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What Venezuela's National Assembly did allow is something unimaginable in the US where democracy is more illusion than fact. It invited students on both sides of RCTV's shuttering to debate it before a full session of congress. When they came June 7, it highlighted what's evident on the streets - the sharp class divide showing students from elitist families in the protests while the great majority of ordinary Venezuelans, benefitting from Bolivarianism, opposing them.

The National Assembly forum was held June 7. Each side showed up with a list of 20 speakers, but things didn't go as planned. Protesting student representatives came, then left after the first pro-government speech saying nothing after its leader's comment that protests would continue. It proved free expression isn't the issue at all as, given the chance to make their case to congress, student agitators chose not to do it.
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Peru's Alan Garcia serves the elite so his lawlessness was ignored when he pulled the operating licenses of two TV stations and three radio stations. The likely reason was their support for a strike Garcia opposes because, unlike Chavez, he's subservient to Washington and no democrat.

Summing up, what's playing out on Venezuela's streets is part of a made-in-Washington attempt weaken Hugo Chavez through a phony trumped up scheme denouncing him for opposing free expression, using RCTV's shuttering as the pretext. This writer even got one unconfirmed report elitist university professors ordered their students to the streets in protest or get failing grades in their courses if they refused. It's likely true, so many in the protest crowds weren't there for conviction, but fearing retribution in class if they demurred.
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http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/06/09/wall_street_journal_s_looking_glass_worl

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I'll be keeping a watch for any view of who the students are, who organized this, etc. Thanks for mentioning it.