I was going to write about two separate events in Venezuela which characterize how bizarre and difficult to explain things are, but Francisco’s excellent post on one them has made the job easier. Francisco explains quite well the bizarre attack by an urban guerilla group of a police post near dowtown Caracas in which three cops were hurt. What’sincredible is that these groups attacking the cops are pro-Chavez….
A second event of similar bizarre nature took place yesterday in the East of venezuela at PDVSA’ headquarters in the city of Maturin:
A group of people took over the Headquarters to request the removal of the General Manager and the Production Manage, both pro-Chavez, who had fired the two leaders of the pro-Chavez union. Thus, this is a Chavista versus Chavista fight. What is even more interesting is the reason for firing the leaders of the union: They had denounced to th regional media last Tuesday that due to an error in operations, PDVSA had lost US$ 30 million. The group, one of Chavez’ Bolivarian Circles, is still there and refusesto move until the union leaders are reinstated or the Managers fired. In the words of one of the leaders of the Bolivarian Circle :” We will not accept that these two unon leaders identified with the revolution are removed by these managers of PDVSA that think that tehy can do whatever they want”. Thus, now you have three groups in the conflict: The Mangers of PDVSA, in theory a private company, the union and the Bolivarian circles. What is more remarkable is that if they were right, it is the union leaders that are correct in this case and the PDVSA managers, by now used to act with impunity are violating their basic right to free speech in order to protect themselves. Bizarre, mad, complex? I really dont knwo which word to use to describe what is going on anymore.
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