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Oil coup-strike-lockout is for the rich. Help President Chavez! Search Venezuela news.by Media war. Wednesday, Jan. 01, 2003 at 11:34 PMIn 1974 80% of oil income went to the state. Today 80% of Venezuelan oil income goes to the rich, and to "operating costs." Only 20% goes to the state. Chavez reforms will help reverse this in January 2003. This is why the coup-plotters, "strike"-promoters, and corporate media are in such a hurry to overthrow the fairly-ELECTED Chavez government. They want to prevent these reforms, and reverse others already-implemented. Reforms that help the poor and lower middle class. Massive corporate-media disinformation, destabilization campaign going on inside Venezuela. Support President Chavez! Please forward widely. Venezuela's oil Venezuela's oil coup-strike-lockout for the rich. In 1974 80% of oil income went to the state. Today 80% of Venezuelan oil income goes to the rich, and to "operating costs." Only 20% goes to the state.
Chavez reforms will help reverse this in January 2003. This is why the coup-plotters, "strike"-promoters, and corporate media are in such a hurry to overthrow the fairly-ELECTED Chavez government. They want to prevent these reforms, and reverse others already-implemented.
Reforms that help the poor and lower middle class.
Massive corporate-media disinformation, destabilization campaign going on inside Venezuela.
Support President Chavez! Please forward widely. Search Venezuela news sites. Progressive news search
engine. Choose site from dropdown window
below.
Some Venezuela news sources. SEARCH Venezuela news sources. Standard Google
searches. Click, and then add additional search terms. Some sites are also
indexed daily by Google News, so try clicking the "News" tab. For the
absolute very latest news click the site's homepage link in any of the result
pages.
Google News. Some search shortcuts for very up-to-date Venezuela
news. ----------------- Bold formatting and larger text sizes have been added to some of the text in the excerpts below. Outside observers and organizations find Venezuelan
elections to be free and fair. The vast majority of Venezuelans are poor or poor lower middle class. "The average annual salary of these 22 'strike' leaders is 6,000 U.S.
dollars a year; almost 100 times the per capita income of the average Venezuelan
citizen of ,760 dollars per year." "When the captain of the Pilin Leon first dropped anchor, he was
expressing his solidarity with the anti-government strike in Caracas. But the
tanker's crew were opposed to the strike and their captain's piratical action.
When the marines boarded, on the orders of the embattled president Hugo Chavez,
only the captain needed to be replaced. ... The trump card of the opposition, in
April as in December, has been the state-owned oil company, Petroleos de
Venezuela, often described as the fifth largest oil exporter in the world, and
an important supplier to the US. Nationalised more than 25 years ago, it has
been run over the years for the exclusive benefit of its employees and managers
- its profits being invested everywhere except Venezuela. Before the arrival of
Chavez, it was being prepared for privatisation, to the satisfaction of the
engineers and directors who would have benefited. But with a block placed on
privatisation by the new Venezuelan constitution, the company's middle class and
prosperous elite has been happy to be used as a shock weapon by the leaders of
the Pinochet-style opposition, and they have tried to bring their entire
industry to a halt." "The organizers of this so-called “strike” are the very same
collection of slimy forces that backed the April [2002] coup d’etat and
Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro Carmona, who, once in power, abolished the Supreme
Court, the Congress, shut down Community TV and Radio Stations, assassinated
50 political activists, and nullified the Constitution. Carmona also freed
the sniper-assassins who had fired shots from rooftops on April 11th into
crowds of people, creating the pretext for what was, back then, a military coup.
(Stay tuned for our upcoming report about the undisclosed conflicts-of-interest
of one of the foreign reporters that helped to create this pretext last
April.)" "Much of this struggle is about oil. Venezuela is the world's fourth largest oil producer and its oil industry is critical to its economy. Chavez's 'bolivarian revolution' argues for a role for the state in the oil industry, the redistribution of oil income, and the use of revenues from this resource to build economic independence. But since 1974, the oil industry has been moving in the opposite direction. At that time [1974] , the state-run-oil company kept 20% of its revenue in operating costs and turned 80% over to the state. In 1990 it was 50-50 and in 1998, when Chavez was elected, the company kept 80% and turned 20% over. What the neoliberals had in mind in the late 1990s was full privatization-not a reversal of the trend of the previous 20 years. Added to this, the administration of the oil industry is in the hands of anti-Chavez forces, making it possible for them to go on strike in order to promote privatization. "What are Chavez's other crimes? Severance pay was restored in
the constitution of 1999, after being eliminated in 1997. Social
security was set to be privatized in 1998, but was also impeded by the
constitution of 1999. The Land Law, passed last year, was an
agrarian reform law that tries to make rural life viable for Venezuelans and
slow rural-urban migration at the expense of large plantation owners and
real-estate speculators." ---------------------------
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The Oil Sector Sabotage http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article571.html [snip. Excerpt begins] There was, this month, one sector of oil company executives that claimed they
were on “strike,” but who in fact have spent this month actively working to
lock-out rank-and-file employees and, according to their own public statements,
to facilitate the sabotage, including eco-terrorism, of oil facilities. [snip. End of excerpt from NarcoNews] ------------------------ ------------------------ Reports disagree as to how many of the middle
class agree or oppose the Chavez reforms. Pro-Chavez rallies have been huge and have
had many, many middle class participants. The situation is fluid and the
reforms help much of the middle class too. Many progressive Chavez reforms
are listed at this link:
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Women and the new
1999 Bolivarian
Constitution of Venezuela. “We women reject the organizers of hate and chaos. "We women are on the front line for our right to live in peace and to defend the Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela, which gives us, for the first time in history, the right to full legal equality, to social security, to a pension for housewives. We are on the streets backing our President and our Bolivarian Revolution. "Long live the Constitution! No to the fraudulent referendum! No to the pro-coup fascist stoppage! Don’t stop for the stoppage!” ----Go to the link above for many more details.-------- --------------------------
Le Monde diplomatique. June
2002 article. "The perfect crime." by Ignacio Ramonet. [Excerpt begins] “[T]here will be a coalition of the well-to-do, bringing together the Catholic Church …, the financial oligarchy, the employers’ organizations, the bourgeoisie and corrupt trade union leaderships – all repackaged as ‘civil society.’ The owners of major media will collude ... to support the campaigns that they will each launch against the president, in the name of defending that ‘civil society.’... “The press and TV will brandish terms ‘the people, democracy, liberty,’ etc. They will mobilize street demonstrations and any attempt by the government to criticize them will be immediately described as ‘a serious assault on freedom of expression,’ ... they will revive the insurrectional strike and encourage ideas of a coup and an assault on the presidential palace. ... “The Venezuelan media currently uses lies and disinformation in the biggest ever destabilization campaign against a democratically elected government. Since the world hardly seems to care, the media hopes that this time it will succeed in committing the perfect crime.” Excerpt above was found toward the end of this article: --------------
[snip. First part deleted. Excerpt begins] Here’s a photo of the “anti-strike day” [Dec 2 2002]
mega-market organized by defenders of the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution and the
elected presidency of Hugo Chávez that the pro-coup elements want to abolish… ----end of NarcoNews article excerpt--- -------------------- The April 2002 coup by media.
"The conspirators, including Carmona, met at the offices of Venevisión.
They stayed until 2am to prepare "the next stage", along with Rafael
Poleo (owner of El Nuevo Pais) and Gustavo Cisneros, a key figure in the
coup. Cisneros, a multimillionaire of Cuban origin and the owner of
Venevisión, runs a media empire - Organización Diego Cisneros. It has 70
outlets in 39 countries (9). Cisneros is a friend of George Bush senior:
they play golf together and in 2001 the former US president holidayed in
Cisneros's Venezuelan property. Both are keen on the privatisation [theft] of
the PDVSA [Venezuelan oil company] (10). Otto Reich, US assistant
secretary of state for Interamerican affairs, admits to having spoken with
Cisneros that night (11). At 4am on 12 April [2002], to avoid bloodshed,
Chávez allowed himself to be arrested and taken to the distant island of
Orchila." "After the shooting began, authorities of the
government of President Hugo Chávez immediately apprehended some of the rooftop
snipers who had lit the fuse to the violence. But after Chávez himself was
placed into custody later that day by military generals, the rooftop assassins,
whose identities are still unknown, were incredulously set free by the
dictatorship of Pedro Carmona - and this tells us everything about which
side hired those snipers - as the dictator-for-a-day Carmona simultaneously
abolished the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Constitution. For a more
detailed history of these events, in which the Venezuelan people overthrew the
U.S.-sponsored dictatorship within three days and changed the history of our
América, see "Three Days that Shook the Media," (Narco News, April
18, 2002: http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html
).
Venezuela opposition, state waging battle through media. In recent days, seven national private TV channels repeatedly have broadcast slickly produced ads blaming Chavez for everything from street crime to gasoline shortages. The gas problem stems from the TV-supported strike. "We will not give up the fight, we won't give up until he resigns," one ad drones on Venevision. "Not one step backward. Out! Leave Now!" states another, paid for by the Democratic Coordinator opposition umbrella group and repeatedly broadcast on the Globovision 24-hour news network. Yet another ad, titled "History of a Failure," shows clips of dirty street kids, long unemployment lines and acts of political violence. A voiceover repeatedly accuses Chavez of "Failure! Failure!" Commercials for Christmas gifts have been replaced by political propaganda since the strike began Dec. 2. Normal programming - soap operas, cartoons, sitcoms - has been swapped for near-constant news coverage and marathon talk shows with opposition politicians. [Excerpt ends] ------------------ Associated Press. Centralized propaganda. [Excerpt begins] "But there's zero accountability at AP. 'The AP is unaccountable to its millions of readers,' notes Feder. 'Unlike at many newspapers, there is no AP ombudsman who 'speaks for the readers.' There is no letters page for the AP, and individual newspapers rarely print letters responding to wire stories.' "And it's only going to stop when your local managing editors and news
directors find the backbone to send inaccurate stories back to AP - like they
would with one of their own reporters - and insist on a rewrite." --------------------
From San Francisco Indymedia homepage:
Narco
News on the Venezuelan Coup, the Media and How to Stop Both of Them
Interview with Al Giordano: San Francisco IMC has
interviewed Al Giordano, of Narco News,
about the Venezuelan coup attempt, the media's complicity in the coup, and
perspectives on how we can stop them. Read
the Interview
After carrying out a two-week "national strike," or lock-out, and despite a helping hand from Associated Press and other media agencies, the Venezuelan elite has so far failed to force populist President Chavez to resign. In implementing reforms which benefit primarily the poor, Chavez has inspired well-funded opposition by oil barons and other business leaders, union bureaucrats and portions of the military, with the complicity of corporate media. Thousands of Venezuela's poor have rushed into the streets to prevent the "coup of the rich." The Organization of American States has voted overwhelmingly to reject any future coup attempt in Venezuela or alteration of that nation's constitution. US religious and labor organizations and some members of Congress have asked President Bush, who had previously called for unconstitutional "early elections," to support democracy by opposing any move to oust Chavez by force. In San Francisco on 12/18, around 50 protesters gathered at noon at the Venezuelan consulate to show support for Chavez and the Venezuelan democratic process. Photos Read more: 1 2 3 -----end of San Francisco Indymedia homepage excerpt--- ----------------- *Terrorism of USA. Death Squads, Drug War. LINKS
worldwide. Revised. Millions killed over decades. Mostly US-run or
US-aided terrorist death squads worldwide. Other death squads, too. Today's
death squads, and older ones such as the US-run Phoenix Program during the Vietnam war.
Terrorism and corruption at all levels of politics, police,
society, media, business, unions, government, etc.. Lists in alphabetical and chronological order. Huge LINKS list. *Stop corporatism. "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito
Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). Hemp for Oil! Stop Big Oil!
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