<I know Chavez is left, but I don't know why the oil workers oppose him.>
Not all of them, but many of them working under the middle managers who work for the oil-elite.
Very few of the sharecroppers and not-yet-landreformed agricultural ones having 2 months time
to strike, shake and beat their household and kithen utilities, many does not even have a anything
to shake and beat.
Those military coup-guys almost got sorted out, but now they are again going for another run, dangerous.
Ilmarinen
Anyway, even Ford liked unions as long as the maffia run them, or maybe it was before.
The economic elite, banks, middle class and some union members, most bank tellers is always interesting
when on a common strike, after the military did not succeed in their coup against elections.
Note that these things with middle,etc classes, haciendas, are somewhat different when no landreforms
has been done and oil enters the equation. (and the landless and evicted, sharecroppers and worse get
the chance to vote, almost like the banks closing down like 1930 USA, Jim Crow but not somebody
to export oil to)
Funny stuff, that Monroe Corollary (please do google search), Standard Fruit and Oil, and those
landreforms, although as agricuture is getting more and more capital intensive, it is getting
more complicated, more like education reforms, but-but-but..that oil...
(btw, Venezuela oil is interesting, small findings, high costs to constantly find more, not at all like
the Saudis nor Kuwait) |
