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Venezuelan businesses may reopen as strike against Chavez weakens
(The Mercury News, January 28, 2003)
Schools, restaurants and malls may reopen amid fears that a 57-day-old strike called to force President Hugo Chavez from office could backfire, business leaders said . . . Business representatives expressed concern Monday that discontent with food and fuel shortages caused by the strike could undermine its objective of removing Chavez from office. . . . A waning strike could give Chavez the upper hand in negotiations with the opposition. Negotiations, mediated by the Organization of American States, have focused on whether to hold early presidential elections. . . . The strike has cost Venezuela at least $4 billion so far. The economy could shrink by as much as 40 percent in the first quarter of 2003, the Santander Central Hispano investment bank has warned. . . . Government adversaries are now pinning hopes on amending the constitution to allow early elections. They must gather signatures from at least 15 percent of Venezuela's 12 million registered voters to call a referendum to cut the presidential term to four years.

posted by Lorenzo 12:36 PM

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Venezuela: Full Coverage of News Not Shown on CNN
Archives from December's Strike that Wasn't... and from April's Failed Coup d'etat . . . stories linked to from this page include:

A Brit Reporter�s Undisclosed Venezuela Conflicts
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Narco News Press Conference on SF IMC
AP�s One-Sided Venezuela Coverage
Am�rica Reborn: 32 Nations Back Venezuela
White House Venezuela Error Backfires
Open Letter to Bush on Venezuela from U.S. Congress members - and You
Bush�s Desperate Venezuela Statement
Copy Cat Journalists Forero and Miller
Gaviria Should Leave Venezuela
The People Rise Up Against Venezuela's Commercial Media
A People Defends its Democracy Against Media Power
Why Are the Coup Plotters So Impatient?
Chronicle of Predicted Deaths
�Rich Man�s Strike� Fails in Venezuela
Alfredo Pe�a's Little Army
Drug Czar Favors Treatment, not Prison
So What Happened Thursday in Venezuela?
On Venezuela and Democracy

posted by Lorenzo 7:42 AM

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U.S. Company Controls Venezuela's Petro Computers
(ZNet Commentary Of "Lungos" And "Senoritos" A Colombian View Of Venezuela January 02, 2003 By Hector Mondragon)
"But the real strength of the strike in Venezuela has been in the computers that control the giant and highly automated petroleum industry. Even though the PDV is nominally state-owned and run, the computer system is in the hands of the 'mixed' (public-private) enterprise Intesa. The party with the technical skill in the partnership is the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)-a transnational computing company. Among its directors: ex-US Secretaries of Defense William Perry and Melvin Laird; ex-directors of the CIA John Deutsch, Robert Gates; Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (ex-director of the National Security Agency); other retired military staff including Wayne Downing (former commander in chief of US Special Forces) and Jasper Welch (ex-coordinator of the National Security Council)."

posted by Lorenzo 8:21 AM