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Venezuelans Hold Mass Anti-Government Rally |
Current rating: -2 |
by postalworker
Email: p (nospam) usps.gov (unverified!) |
18 Jan 2003
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More than 100,000 Venezuelans took part in an anti-government rally in Caracas late Saturday after President Hugo Chavez threatened to quit talks aimed at ending the country's seven-week-old crippling general strike. |
VOA News
19 Jan 2003, 04:09 UTC
More than 100,000 Venezuelans took part in an anti-government rally in Caracas late Saturday after President Hugo Chavez threatened to quit talks aimed at ending the country's seven-week-old crippling general strike.
Protesters disrupted traffic, as they marched in the capital to support demands that President Chavez step down and call early elections. The embattled leader says he will not negotiate with strikers and has threatened to use the full extent of the law backed by military power to end the strike.
Earlier, Mr. Chavez said he was considering pulling out of talks with the opposition brokered by the Organization of American States (OAS). He accused opponents of not being serious about following what he called a "democratic path."
The Venezuelan president made the remark in Brazil, where he held talks with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about the latest initiative to send the political stalemate.
A so-called Group of Friends of Venezuela is being set up to help mediate between Mr. Chavez and the opposition. The group includes Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and the United States.
Mr. Chavez wants Russia and China to be added to the group, but Mr. da Silva rejected the idea saying a smaller number could make and implement decisions more efficiently.
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Please Ignore US Propaganda |
by IMCista
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Current rating: 0
19 Jan 2003
Modified: 11:23:25 AM |
You won’t get the truth about Venezuela by reading the shoddy US government propaganda reposted above. It’s also truly bizarre to imagine that any real “postalworker” would take the side of management, which is exactly what whoever posted it is doing.
After carrying out a more than three-week "national strike," or lock-out, and despite a helping hand from the Associated Press (http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article567.html) and other media agencies, the Venezuelan elite has so far failed (http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article565.html) to force President Chavez to resign. In implementing reforms which benefit primarily the poor, Chavez has inspired well-funded opposition by oil barons (http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/07/138635.php) and other business leaders, union bureaucrats (http://www.zmag.org/content/Labor/sipesaflven.cfm) and portions of the military, with the complicity of corporate media.
The Organization of American States voted (http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article566.html) overwhelmingly on December 16 to reject any future coup attempt in Venezuela or alteration of that nation's constitution. US religious and labor organizations and some members of Congress (http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=42466&group=webcast) have asked President Bush, who had previously called for unconstitutional early elections (http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1550498.php), to support democracy by opposing any move to oust Chavez by force.
Read:
| SF IMC interview with Al Giordano of Narco News
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1552703.php
Narco News
http://www.narconews.com
| Dec 10 Indymedia feature
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/12/2002-12.html#6401
| Apr 14 Indymedia feature
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/04/2002-04.html#3399
| Apr 13 Indymedia feature
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/04/2002-04.html#3388
Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/4990
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/7305
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/8004
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/8487
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/8612
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/8840
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