Why Venezuela's Neighbors Are Hoping For A Chavez Win Sunday

[Judi Lynn]

30. Hi, Seskatow. Just saw your post, and glanced at a couple of the responses.

I raised the topic here years ago, and the same lame rubbish happened then, too.

Of COURSE we never hear of them from our own corporate media, that's NOT stuff they care about.

I took a quick look at google and this flew up immediately:

Murder of the campesinos

It is not Hugo Chavez who endangers Venezuelans, but the greedy landowners killing peasant farmers with impunity

Edward Ellis
The Guardian, Sunday 2 October 2011 16.59 EDT

Venezuela, the resource-rich South American country that is home to the largest oil reserves on the planet, has been a focal point for international journalists, pundits and human rights activists for the better part of a decade. This has been thanks to the provocative and defiant stance of the nation's leftwing president Hugo Chávez.

Unrelenting in his criticism of western governments, the socialist president has made countless headlines the world over for everything ranging from his nationalisation of key industries to his chemotherapy-induced baldness. Scant attention has been paid, however, to some of the grittier policy initiatives that have defined Chávez's "Bolivarian Revolution".

Perhaps the starkest example of this neglect concerns the Venezuelan countryside – an area that has been transformed into the battleground for a conflict occurring beneath the radar of both the international human rights community and the major media for more than 10 years.

Since 2001, when the Chávez government pledged to break up the country's vastly unequal land holdings that have stifled agricultural development for more than a century, a wave of reprisal killings have consumed rural areas as large landowners contract assassins to end the "invasions" by pro-government campesinos on their illegitimately acquired and many times fallow estates.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/02/venezuela-land-rights-chavez-farmers

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Thanks for bringing up the subject, you are clearly right, not right-wing, to do it!

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