Reply #61: About those "strikes" [View All]

If you're referring to the walkout by upper-level management (and lockout of the workers) because they didn't like Chavez' social policies, I'd beg to differ with your definition.

As others have stated, Chavez has been elected AND re-elected in a country whose press is so right-wing it makes Fox seem like Indymedia. The media in Venezuela completely whitewashed the 2002 coup, instead stating that Chavez had "resigned" and was on his way out of the country. It NEVER told the full story that Chavez was kidnapped by several rich, white business owners, and was later released because of a loyal Army sergeant who didn't want to see his democratically-elected government replaced by yet another exploitocracy.

The arch-conservative, mostly white owner class in Venezuela cannot stand the fact that a mestizo who actually wants ALL the people of his country to control its resources (AND destiny). The fact that he refuses to play ball with the destructive policies of the IMF pisses off the neo-liberals of both parties in this country, who somehow feel "entitled" to the resources of other countries just because we're the US and "we know best".