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david_l_simpson@yahoo.com (Dave Simpson) wrote in message news:<23e7f86e.0204081534.44a5256f@posting.google.com>...
> Chunga wrote:
> 
> > Iraq's exports can be replaced by Russia, the US, Mexico or any other
> > producer turning up the taps a little.  Venezuela's problems are internal
> > and nothing serious.
> 
>   Venezuela's problems are deeply serious, on the contrary!  But, you
> are right about the ability to make up for shortfalls in deliveries
> elsewhere.  Still, it has people spooked and oil prices have risen on
> the news.
> 
>   (Venezuela's proto-Castro-and-Mao Chavez is a cancer on the whole
> Western Hemisphere.

So you say, however I don't recall Mao or Castro winning 
majority governments in successive democratic elections
the way Hugo Chavez has.

Also, consider how Mao or Castro would have handled
deliberate economic sabatoge by executives who were
employees of the largest public company and key
component in its economy.
Mao would have had them executed
and Castro would have locked them up.
What did Hugo Chavez do?
He gave them early retirement.
Horrors! Imagine the audacity to actually fire
public employees who conspire against the public interest.


> Among other thing he's done is to install cronies
> in the state-run oil conglomerate.

As S. Chavez pointed out himself, the President and Board
of Directors of the PDVSA have *always* been political
appointees belonging to the ruling party.

> Executives as well as employees

In a state-run enterprise the 'executives' are employees
of the state. The government hires/fires them. 
The government is elected to administer the
resources of their ultimate owner: the people.
Gaston Parra, the 'crony' appointed to run the company
shares this philosophy.
Obviously you do not.

> have resented these blatant political moves, and the recalcitrant
> executives have been fired or have taken early retirement -- it is
> reasonable to wonder with what kinds of encouragement -- and workers
> also resent it.  Not everyone below the level of "oligarchy" is a fan
> of Chavez.)

No, of course not. But President Chavez share of the 
popular vote was about 32% higher 
than President Bush's in the US.
> 
> 
>   Dave Simpson