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To: Fred Levine who wrote (67322)	1/13/2003 1:53:14 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I must confess I have not looked into it. It seems to have something to do with the horrible economic conditions the workers live in, though...

To: Fred Levine who wrote (67322)	1/14/2003 2:50:30 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 70976

<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)