Shut Up (About) Chavez - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Nov 07
  

  Arne Løining

  americana

  • Most   of the media speaks for the people with money.
  • Chavez is feared because of his growing independence in a   country whose vast oil reserves are coveted by the north.
  • opposes U.S. efforts to implement free trade agreements that   would surrender the country’s raw materials in return for   expensive products from abroad.
  • But the mainstream media rarely speaks for the poor   majority. Chavez has instituted a literacy program,   land-acquisition policies that benefit the poor, job training   for unskilled workers, free health care, and manufacturing   cooperatives which give the poor an active role in business   development. He was democratically elected, and recent polls   still place him about 20 percentage points ahead of his nearest   challenger.
  • 80% of the revenue from the oil industry went to only 1% of the   population,
  • the US-backed   attempt to depose him in 2002.

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