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From: "Lowe Laclau" <lowelaclau-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: The Economist on Chavez's victory and plans
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:49:43 -0500


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<P>Scott, </P>
<P>All indications seem to show that it is highly unlikely that Chavez could attempt such a thing and expect to live another day. Not only are bankers and investors in the U.S. <EM>and </EM>Spain now backing a new group to shut-down the old-opposition and replace them with a more 'responsible´ and less corrupt opposition to oust Chavez from within (called the ´third coup attempt´) but with such fear for spill-over effects from the surrounding countries the OAS, which has till this point attempted to maintain moderation despite U.S. anxiety, would likely be pushed to take extreme measures at such quick and radical measures by this already worrysome leader. </P>
<P>Mind you that the U.S. recently, without much recognition at all from the press, coordinated with the OAS states First Special Services Force units (one for the North & Central Americas and one in the South - they used to be solely joint efforts between the US and Canada) with the militaries of cooperative OAS member states to give any overt military actions within the region a more ´multilateral´ appearance in the case of regional ´securitty concers´. I would think that anything that overtly threatens the success of a 2005 implementation of the FTAA in the Americas and all the US corporate interests represented therein would be considered a major "security" threat. Such overt attention I would think, would also not be wanted at all by either Cuba or Brazil, the other two countries that the US seems to have the most worries about at this point. </P>
<P>Lowe<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: Scott Hamilton <S_H_HAMILTON-AT-YAHOO.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
<DIV></DIV>>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: AUT: Fwd: The Economist on Chavez's victory and plans 
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:27:39 +0000 (GMT) 
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<DIV></DIV>>"Having survived a devastating opposition strike, Hugo 
<DIV></DIV>>Chvez is preparing to take the offensive. That looks 
<DIV></DIV>>like bad news for the beleaguered private sector..." 
<DIV></DIV>>http://www.economist.com/world/la/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1567240 
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<DIV></DIV>>Interesting article. Another question I have debated 
<DIV></DIV>>with friends down here is whether it would be possible 
<DIV></DIV>>for Chavez to bureaucratically abolish the free market 
<DIV></DIV>>and nationalise the economy and property in the way 
<DIV></DIV>>Castro did, now that the USSR is not around to 
<DIV></DIV>>bankroll such a project. 
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