To: Krikor who wrote (1057 ) 7/8/2003 4:21:52 PM From: marcos Respond to Article on Chávez - #reply-19093339alternet.org run by a minority of very white people, pure-blood descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. To most of the 80 percent of Venezuelans who are brown, Hugo Chavez is their Nelson Mandela, the man who will smash the economic and social apartheid ' ... there are factions other than those of old spanish on the anti-chavista side .... foreign expats and a large jewish faction in Caracas, along with their local connections, for a start ..... and the issue of race becomes less crucial over time, as people cross the line, it becomes far more a thing of culture
