Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:18:39 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: Gral. Strike in Ecuador


Gerry F.,

You wrote on 06.02:

>General strike in Ecuador
>
>Tumultuous mass protests started in Ecuador on Jan. 8, provoked by drastic
>rises in the utility bills. The cost of electricity went up by 600 percent,
>of natural gas by 200 percent. Moreover, an increase of at least 100
>percent was expected in the cost of public transport.......

Nasty increases in energy prices (and other things).

Here in Sweden, the govt. wants to close and destroy a perfectly
good nuclear power plant, which provides Southern Sweden with a
large part of its energy in a (production-wise) cheap and clean
way.

The problems thus in certain respects are very similar for the
Ecuadorians and for the Swedes.

And the root cause is the same: Imperialism and its raging
anti-industry campaigns (supported i.a. by its phoney"left"
muppets).

Rolf M.






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