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On 20 Jan 2003 at 7:20, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> It's hard to tell from the US media reports what's really
> going on. Is the "nation-wide strike" a strike of the workers
> or just a lockout of the workers by the companies opposed to
> Chaves? Given his popularity with the lower class, it's
> difficult to understand why they would be striking against
> him.
It is a strike. You can tell by the fact that Chavez has been
trolling poorer latin American countries, in particular Brazil,
to recruit guest workers to do scab labor.
However he recently discovered that many of these guest
workers, though they theoretically have the skills of those
they are supposed to replace, do not actually have the skills.
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