Chavez once again porves he's a tin pot dictator in the making.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by Kontiki
I'm pretty sure the US would be on them like stink on a monkey if they annexed Guyana.

Exactly. All they want is a legitimate excuse and the US would launch a military attack - faster than you can say Kuwait.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Did you read the Christian Science Monitor Article

50% of 1999's production would be 1.35 m/bpd. Presumably you know how to do math.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by lord of the mark

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0531/p04s01-woam.html

Yes, Oerdin already quoted that and those numbers are already to be shown to be BS. Thank you for playing.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
namely that skilled professionals who don't see eye to eye with Chavez get fired for political reasons and are replaced with political yes men who just aren't as skilled or who are not skilled at all in these jobs.

Do you know why they are being replaced? Because they deliberately sabotaged production in order to try and force Chavez out of office. Do you remember the 2003 lockout? If you were the CEO of a corporation and your middle managers and engineers were sabotaging the company solely to get rid of you, would you keep them and let them destroy the company or fire them and replace them with less qualified but more loyal people?

[Kuciwalker]

Because they deliberately sabotaged production in order to try and force Chavez out of office.

Do you remember the 2003 lockout? If you were the CEO of a corporation and your middle managers and engineers were sabotaging the company solely to get rid of you, would you keep them and let them destroy the company or fire them and replace them with less qualified but more loyal people?

You know, when it's not a leftist running the system you usually cheer on strikers... hypocrite.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Amazingly all of the skilled professionals who disagreed politically with Chavez were sabatoging production. Unbelievable!

[Kuciwalker]

Incidentally, union leaders hate America, trying to sabotage this great country.

[chequita guevara]

It was a lockout, not a strike. That's when the managers stop production, not the workers.

[Kuciwalker]

Managers work too.

[chequita guevara]

They are in control.

Well, they were in control. Not so much anymore.

It's the difference between a slave striking his master and master striking his slave. One is an act of resistence. The latter is an act of domination.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yes, now the dictator is in control.

[chequita guevara]

He's not a dictator yet. Though if Western reports are correct, and I have little reason to believe they are, he soon will be.

Then again, my local papers are somewhat more hysterical about Latin American socialists than in the rest of the country.

My wife's personal experience with the Venezuelan elite has left her very bitter towards them. She used to work at Bloomingdale's and Sax 5th Ave, and she said no other group of people treated her as if she was a servant so much as rich Venezuelans.

Rich Venezuelans very much have a sense of class hierarchy. They hate Chavez not because he may be a dictator. After all, previous dictators weren't unpopular. They hate him because he is common and works for the lower classes of Venezuela.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He's just a de facto dicator. The de jure is not far behind.

Power to the people indeed.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
He's just a de facto dicator. The de jure is not far behind.

Power to the people indeed.

He cannot rule by decree. He's not a dictator, anymore than Bush was a dictator simply because the GOP Congress rubber stamped most of his wishes and provided no oversight.

[joncha]

Also, he's got a woo parrot.