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To: chance33_98
Now, I am confused about the history of Chavez...I grew up as a farmer with many migrant worker and farmer friends.

Here's the question??? Was Chavez a great equalizer capitalized upon by latino poverty pimps...or was he a terrorist who supported the unravelling of private farms...or was he the great liberator that many believe he was???

I still don't know.

4 posted on 04/17/2003 9:28:25 PM PDT by Porterville (Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
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To: Porterville
Now, I am confused about the history of Chavez...I grew up as a farmer with many migrant worker and farmer friends.

For one he wasn't a Mexican ---he was a third generation American. He was against illegal and massive immigration from Mexico, he knew illegal immigration was a way to keep people dirt poor and out of work. I think he was just a typical union organizer who thought the workers should have decent wages and working conditions. I always hear he was a Communist but I don't think he was any more Communist than those labor union types in Detroit.

15 posted on 04/17/2003 10:10:55 PM PDT by FITZ
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