Carnagie 2002 and developments in Venezuela

2002-02-23 Thread bantam
and crematoria with working furnaces. Sez Gene: What about Venezuela? That looks to me like a classic CIA de-stabilization effort. U.S. cooking up a coup in Venezuela? By Conn Hallinan Special To The Examiner THERE is the smell of a coup in the air these days. It was like this in Iran just before the 1953

Re: Carnagie 2002 and developments in Venezuela

2002-02-23 Thread Michael Perelman
The coup in Venezuela should be easy, especially after all the US troops hit Colombia. I cannot believe what a free ride the spineless Dems. are giving W. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Carnagie 2002 and developments in Venezuela

2002-02-23 Thread Ken Hanly
Washington-Backed Coup Plot Update Associated Press MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2002 CARACAS, Venezuela - A Venezuelan Navy vice admiral demanded on Monday that President Hugo Chavez resign in the latest show of discontent among the military top brass with the leftist President's stewardship

Chavez in Venezuela

2002-02-19 Thread Michael Hoover
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/17/Worldandnation/Chavez_clings_to_shak.shtml Chavez clings to shaky control of Venezuela The Latin American president's economic solutions may not be enough to pull the country back from the brink. By DAVID ADAMS and PHIL GUNSON © St. Petersburg Times published

Venezuela???

2001-11-29 Thread Eugene Coyle
The largest business Chamber in Venezuala voted to hold a 12 hour national strike on Dec. 10th. Seems to me to be an echo of Chile in the early '70s. While the world watches elsewhere, is there a program to destabalize/overthrow the government in Venezuala? Anybody know what's going on? Gene

Venezuela???

2001-11-29 Thread Charles Brown
Venezuela??? by Eugene Coyle 29 November 2001 The largest business Chamber in Venezuala voted to hold a 12 hour national strike on Dec. 10th. Seems to me to be an echo of Chile in the early '70s. While the world watches elsewhere, is there a program to destabalize/overthrow the government

Class struggle sharpens in Venezuela

2001-11-25 Thread Michael Pugliese
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:44:59 +0100 From: Partija rada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Class struggle sharpens in Venezuela AP. 22 November 2001. Venezuela Calls in Riot Police to Quell Clashes Between Opposition Demonstrators, Government Supporters. CARACAS -- Venezuelan police

Richard Gott, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela (was Congo)

2001-01-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
by Richard Gott on Chavez: * The Guardian (London) September 12, 2000 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages, Pg. 22 HEADLINE: Comment Analysis: This man means business: One person above all is responsible for the recent oil price hike - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela BYLINE: Richard Gott

Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-02 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] With regard to foreign affairs, though, the AFL-CIO has been quite centralized. In fact, I don't think rank-and-file American unionists have ever become aware of the work done by the inner circle. There is some truth there

RE: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-02 Thread Max Sawicky
From what I can see, and I haven't been looking hard, the AFL doesn't do any 'foreign affairs' work any more. The scuttlebutt was that those guys were being pensioned off. Budget cuts at both ends (the Feds and the AFL). The part I do see around trade is something everybody seems to want them

Re: Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-02 Thread Jim Devine
At 09:57 PM 12/01/2000 -0500, you wrote: And Hoffa did not win because the government supported Hoffa Jr. - if anything Carey had the support of a lot of the monitors in the Carey-Hoffa matchup - but the progressive forces screwed up with their . So the TDU forces lost because they lost the

Re: Re: Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-02 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:57 PM 12/01/2000 -0500, you wrote: And Hoffa did not win because the government supported Hoffa Jr. - if anything Carey had the support of a lot of the monitors in the Carey-Hoffa matchup - but the progressive forces

Re: Re: Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-02 Thread Justin Schwartz
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the TDU forces and the Carey folks who "botched [a] diversion of union funds to fend off Hoffa" are two different groups of people who were temporarily allied. The former are more independent of the existing political establishment, while the latter are more like

Fwd: spooks act against Venezuela

2000-12-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:58:49 -0500 From: John Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: spooks act against Venezuela You may have noticed that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been getting increasingly in the face of the US global secret police. Breaking bread with Castro

Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Nathan Newman
ewman http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlin es/001130/world/afp/Global_unions_group_warns_Venezuela_will_face_isolation_ over_union-overhaul_vote.html Thursday, November 30 7:22 AM SGT Global unions group warns Venezuela will face isolation over u

Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Louis Proyect
. They are typical "bread and butter" unions of the AFL-CIA mode and in a battle between their leaders and a populist government, we have to carefully consider who speaks for the majority of Venezuela. === St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 28, 1992 ARMY ROUTS REBELS IN VENEZUELA Rebe

Re: Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Nathan Newman
by backing the presidency of Carlos Perez. They are typical "bread and butter" unions of the AFL-CIA mode and in a battle between their leaders and a populist government, we have to carefully consider who speaks for the majority of Venezuela. Louis, this all may be true and Chavez's actions

Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Louis Proyect
Nathan Newman: Louis, this all may be true and Chavez's actions should be denounced just as rightwing attempts to destroy leftwing unions should be denounced. Any top-down government takeover of trade unions should be fought. If the members of those unions support their fucked up leadership,

Re: Fwd: spooks act against Venezuela

2000-12-01 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:14 AM Subject: [PEN-L:5191] Fwd: spooks act against Venezuela Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:58:49 -0500 From: John Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as ChavezSeeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/00 10:40AM -clip- And how retro do you have to be to still be labelling groups based on Cold War stereotypes. The ICFTU may have been part of the Cold War divide but it now also includes a range of unions from around the world from a range of economic and political

Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks UnionsDestruction

2000-12-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Nathan: Why is it that a high-five from Fidel to Chavez suddenly makes the wholesale suppression of independent unions in Venezuala acceptable to some leftists? "Independent" unions in Venezuela? Of what have they been "independent"? Unions of the world had b

Re: Fwd: spooks act against Venezuela

2000-12-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
I don't know anything about this, but over in Russia the Duma is currently considering a bill that would sharply cut back labor union rights, including those related to child care facilities, according to the Johnson Russia List. Barkley Rosser I've heard the same though I'm not aware of

Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks UnionsDestruction

2000-12-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Nathan: Louis, this all may be true and Chavez's actions should be denounced just as rightwing attempts to destroy leftwing unions should be denounced. Any top-down government takeover of trade unions should be fought. If the members of those unions support their fucked up leadership, that is

Re: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nathan: Louis, this all may be true and Chavez's actions should be denounced just as rightwing attempts to destroy leftwing unions should be denounced. Any top-down government takeover of trade unions should be fought. If

RE: Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks Unions Destruction

2000-12-01 Thread Max Sawicky
Demo-centralism might improve the AFL. They are a Federation. The affiliates matter more than the 'center.' mbs "Independent" unions in Venezuela? Of what have they been "independent"? Unions of the world had better be independent of the democratic centr

Re: spooks act against Venezuela - as Chavez Seeks UnionsDestruction

2000-12-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Demo-centralism might improve the AFL. They are a Federation. The affiliates matter more than the 'center.' mbs True, trueBesides, I should have said bureaucratic centralism in any case. With regard to foreign affairs, though, the AFL-CIO has been quite centralized. In fact, I don't

[PEN-L:5951] Will NATO bomb Venezuela?

1999-04-26 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, April 26, 1999 85% of Vote Reported to Back Rewrite of Venezuela's Charter By LARRY ROHTER CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelans Sunday overwhelmingly approved a government-backed proposal to convoke a national assembly to write a new constitution. The decision signals the disintegration

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