You fire oil workers, I close auto dealerships. Deal?
Posted on 07/17/2009 7:19:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Employees of oil companies in Venezuela have protested against an ultimatum by President Hugo Chávez's government to embrace the socialist revolution or face the sack.
Hundreds of workers picketed a refinery yesterday and said they would mobilise next week to challenge the politicisation of the state oil company, PDVSA.
The unrest followed a government warning this week that employees would be suspected of subversion unless they joined pro-Chávez trade unions and community groups.
"By now there should not be one single counter-revolutionary left in the heart of the oil trade unions. We must stay on alert," Rafael Ramírez, the oil minister and head of PDVSA, said in a televised speech.
"There cannot be one single state company where socialist committees do not exist. Any state companies lacking a socialist committee shall be suspected of plotting against the revolution."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
You fire oil workers, I close auto dealerships. Deal?
The left is the same everywhere.
Coming to America soon via the Obama Admin.
Prick. And no, I’m not sure which one I mean either. I started typing it for Chavez.
Embrace Hugo Chavez’s ideas or be fired.
I can top that. Embrace Obama’s ideas AND be fired.
>Coming to America soon via the Obama Admin.<
Coming to .... it is here already, we just haven’t felt the full impact of his legislations so far.
by 2013 when all his legislation kicks in, we won’t recognize this place, it will make soviet era russia look like boyscout camps to us old timers.
Save me a nice seat in the Gulag!
Who, honestly, didn’t see this coming the moment Chavez took power?
I was cheering the coup while our wonderful State Department was condemning it.
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