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Labor & The Venezuelan Coup D'etat |
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by Peter Miller
Email: peterm (nospam) shout.net (unverified!) |
28 Apr 2002
Modified: 29 Apr 2002 |
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For-profit news reports of the recent coup in Venezuela say that unions assisted in the overthrow of Hugo Chavez. Why would labor support the overthrow of a populist president? LaRiva describes Venezuela's labor structure and US labor's involvement. |
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Confimation of Disturbing News? |
by ML
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29 Apr 2002
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This article has some interesting information in it about an AFL-CIO role in the Venezuela coup.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/vene-a18.shtml
Supposedly, the AFL-CIO had sworn off its past cooperation with the evil designs of the US government, due in large part to the deaths of so many union officials and organizers at the hands of US-sponsored death squads in Latin America. It looks like union members need to ask some hard questions of union leadership to get to the bottom of such anti-democratic practices. |
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by ML
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29 Apr 2002
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Note the reference to labor and the National Endowment for Democracy in this piece:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0429-01.htm
This Cold War institution was used to funnel money to Uncle Sam's compliant servants during the Central America struggles in the 1980s. It looks like old Reagan-era managment team of Eliot Abrams, John Negroponte, and Otto Reich are up to their old tricks now that they have been retreaded (and pardoned) into similar roles under Bush II. |
