Re: [Marxism] Venezuela's "student movement"

["Lance Murdoch" <lancemurdoch@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had an encounter with the anti-Chavez people in New York City on
April 12th, 2002.  They are well-organized, well-funded, and
well-informed about what is going on in Venezuela.  They were able to
throw together a fairly well attended (50 people?) anti-Chavez
demonstration in front of the Venezuelan consulate in New York not
even a day, but some hours after the coup had taken place, and got it
filmed by the mobile Spanish language television news truck.  Not all
of them were Venezuelan - there were bourgeois Colombians and so forth
there as well.  A man seemed to be leading the whole thing, I forget
his name, I know he had some anti-Chavez meetings in Jackson Heights,
New York subsequently.  Anyhow, in my experience, these things are
about as far from being spontaneous as you can get.

-- Lance

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