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Old 18-05-2006, 01:05 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by attaboy
In what light should the food shortages and the resulting suffering he created be seen? He doubled the price to be paid to coffee growers while maintaining the price set for the sale of the roasted coffee. I'd guess the result was coffee roasters didn't buy any raw coffee from the growers and they sat on their existing inventory to see what would happen. The growers in the meantime had to store their beans at their expense without any income from sales. I wonder what percentage of the beans molded while sitting in possesion of the growers? Is this ineptitude, romanticism run amok or intimidation and destruction of his enemies' economic resources? If I give him the benefit of the doubt and say it is the latter should the people suffer during his policy of destroying his enemies' resources? Is Chavez for peaceful co-existence of the classes and races or is he promoting a 'your turn in the barrel' mentality?

edited: I removed a line in the first paragraph.
What food shortage? The coffee roasters were hording the beans at the risk of them going moldy - hardly a food crisis.
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Is this ineptitude, romanticism run amok or intimidation and destruction of his enemies' economic resources? If I give him the benefit of the doubt and say it is the latter should the people suffer during his policy of destroying his enemies' resources? Is Chavez for peaceful co-existence of the classes and races or is he promoting a 'your turn in the barrel' mentality?
I can not judge how sensible the measures are, I have little knowledge of the culture and background in Latin America and Venezuela.
His approach is different from the text-book class warfare, and also from European style social-democratic reforms.
"classes" co-existing peacefully? - obviously not one of his aims, he seems determined to stop the exploitative 'free-market' profiteering, that's just the sort of thing which would raise hairs in the US who have controlled and taken advantage for decades in the region.
Chavez: "As Rousseau said, between the poor and the rich, liberty is oppressive, only law can liberate".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,1775763,00.html

Also, may I ask what you know about the regime in Venezuela before Chavez elections? A comparison might put the present situation into perspective.
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