From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 08:00:39 EST
Re Rakesh's [8608]: > More Mommer on Venezuela: > http://www.members.partisan.net/sds/sds00703.html Mommer's claim that the PDVSA has become a "state within a state" is very consistent with the suggestion that there is dual power in Venezuela. Re Mike L's [8606]: Thanks for the sources from Marta. The creation and arming of workers' and peasants' councils seems a logical next step, but that in itself would create an alternative, independent power structure within the country. So far the majority of the military has supported Chavez -- but this can not be depended upon. But, would Chavez himself feel threatened by the existence of independent, armed councils of communities of the poor? One difference, perhaps, to the situation in Chile in 1973 is that the size of the social layers who are opposed to the government is greater in Venezuela. In solidarity, Jerry
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