Community | November 26, 2007 | 5 comments

We (CJ) had it first! (rise of violence in Venezuela sparked by University students)

source: http://www.resistenciauniversitaria.com/

http://www.resistenciauniversitaria.com/

Just a couple of weeks ago, we (CJ) had a thread that explored the impending possibility of having the internal situation in Venezuela quickly become more violent. Today CNN is beginning to report on the increasing violence in that country. The rise is blamed on student led opposition to the up coming constitutional referendum that could effectively make Hugo Chavez into a Venezuelan President for life.
In the midst of the tensions between King Juan Carlos of Spain, President Uribe of Colombia and, Chavez 's recent assertions that he would begin preparing Venezuela to enter the nuclear race (and , bring the price of oil to $100/ barrel if the U.S. were to attack Iran),. one can only wonder... Wonder what Washington based think tank or brain trust, is advising Chavez to so effectively, so as keep him on the world section's headlines almost every other day. Perhaps it is this same advise that is responsible for the boycott (government censorship?) of the site where we first found evidence of university students being shot and seriously wounded during protests at the Central University of Caracas.
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5 comments // We (CJ) had it first! (rise of violence in Venezuela sparked by University students)

  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • The avoidance of paying taxes and the exploitation of workers in other countries, the ruination of their environment is the very reason they should be denied our protection. They should pay tariffs on the crap they import. Screw them! Exactly why I'm voting for John Edwards.

    • 5 years ago
  • Editor13x
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      Editor13x  

    • Well Marilynn, That is kind of the reason why these corporations leave the US (and their own HQ locations), they can avoid paying regulated wages and use the usually more relaxed (or bribe ready) laws of these countries (war time or reconstruction time is best for the more agressive) to avoid U.S. taxes. If you remember, Hallyburton just moved it's headquarters to Dubai and, (by mere chance,I'm oh so sure) that does render the company and it's employees free of the threat of legal prosecution in the U.S.
      That is why it is so important to get "Big Business" (D.C. lobbyists) out of the halls of government (i.e. Congress, to start with).
      :)

    • 5 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • Do those mega corporations pay taxes in the US on those operations? If not seems to me they ought to be on their own for defense too. We are fanning the flames of unrest to get an uprising so we can save them from their oil.

    • 5 years ago
  • Editor13x
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      Editor13x  

    • Hi Marylin and yes, we ought not to interfere with other sovereign nations. Unfortunately, we now are at a point where we have to look for ways to preserve mega corporate interests in those very places we have "invaded" economically.
      Here is a good piece by "The Economist" on the expected end of the Cuban embargo now being echoed by publications like "The Cuban Nation" (the leading anti-embargo publication in the U.S.). http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10180002

    • 5 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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