Palast In Venezuela - dealin' the straight dope

[RBHam]

CRUISIN' FOR A BRUISIN' WITH HUGO
GREG PALAST IN CARACAS

Saturday Nov 29, 2003
Hugo Chavez has an attitude problem. Only last April the Venezuelan president escaped a kidnapping by the Chairman of the nation's Chamber of Commerce. This weekend, Chavez is facing a recall petition by the angry rich of Venezuela. He also faces the wrath of an angry rich American president who does not appreciate Chavez' bad attitude toward globalization a la Rumsfeld.

Annoying the moneyed and the powerful is Chavez' gift. And this week, at the meeting of the Congress of Andean Parliaments, he unwrapped a special surprise, a renewed proposal for PetroSur, functionally, a Latin American OPEC.

more...
http://www.gregpalast.com/

[no name no slogan]

1. Palist kicks ass

TBDMCB is a classic. The chapter on Venezuela and the coup alone are worth the price of the book.

[goodhue]

2. Palast rocks

I was fortunate to see him speak in September at the 2nd annual fighting bob fest in Baraboo along with Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders and Jim Hightower. Here is some satire Palast wrote about GW . . .

http://www.fightingbob.com/article.cfm?articleID=111

[donsu]

3. Chavez rocks too

has a lot of courage.

[MrPrax]

4. Hilarious conclusion...

Bull's Eye

"This year Chavez successfully rebuilt Venezuela's oil company after a devastating management strike and campaign of widespread sabotage at PdVSA plants and pumps. It has to infuriate Bush's oil patch buddies that Chavez restored Venezuela's output from near zero to 2-1/2 million barrels a day while, after the same eight month period, Generalissimo Paul Bremer still can't pump enough oil out of Iraq to fill a Humvee."

Whoa...hard kick to the Cajones...
:yourock:
Greg!!