**this party has already established deep roots in the Venezuelan working and popular classes. These rather scruffy looking women are obviously from one of Caracas's rougher areas, maybe Catia or Petare.**
Take two: The same place these underprivileged folks come from, no
doubt?
http://www.panodi.com/09especial...sario/
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http://www.panodi.com/09especial...sario/
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http://www.panodi.com/09especial...sario/
so03.html
http://www.panodi.com/09especial...sario/
so04.html
http://www.panodi.com/09especial...sario/
index.htm
I think you meant to post this up above. To bad I don't know how to move posts - I'd move it for you.
You expected the owners and managers of a large private company to be poor?
You -expect- generational oligarchs to be among the earliest adopters of MVRrismo, when the movement's stated aim is to abolish their feudal, entrenched privilege?
There's no intrinsic difference between the swells kissing Chavez' ass and the people in the photos thrown up in this item, save that the ones in bed with Hugo are likely much,much wealthier, much more High Society, and far more likely to look down their noses at cerro dwellers.
The mix of Criollo aristos and political thugs is like a starter kit for SALO Tropical.
"when the movement's stated aim is to abolish their feudal, entrenched privilege?"
Thats not the movements stated aim. Sure the strangle hold of clientism that some had, and who are largely in the opposition, had to be broken. That is being done. But there are capitalists in Venezuela who can swim on their own. And they can keep swimming. Not only is no-one stopping them but they are encouraged
"There's no intrinsic difference between the swells kissing Chavez' ass and the people in the photos thrown up in this item, save that the ones in bed with Hugo are likely much,much wealthier, much more High Society, and far more likely to look down their noses at cerro dwellers."
I don't agree. I think the opposition almost has a monopoly on those types. But thats ok - we'll do fine without them.
I'm still looking for pictures of Borges climbing up the cerros to explain his campeign door to door. So far haven't seen any.
**the strangle hold of clientism that some had, and who are largely in the opposition, had to be broken**
And replaced by "clientelismo" benefitting the MVR grandees, as well as the people in these photos who are working the new status quo:
meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
"I think the opposition almost has a monopoly on those types"
You're entitled to your opinion. I severly disagree. I find most of those in opposition come from the middle classes, the self-made, who did raise their standard of living in the period Venezuela wasn't a military autocracy.
The ones sniffing around Hugo in the linked photos come from the same old families that profited under Gomez, under Perez Jimenez, now again under Chavez. Their entitlements are protected under the patronage of the MVR moguls; they are the ones whose privilege was MOST threatened by the Apertura economica; they can't compete on a fair playing field as well as they can profit from a patronage system the likes of which Venezuela is today. Again.
Ridicule the sifrinas all you want, but take the time to browse some of the names of the aristos sucking up to Hugo here:
http://gisims2.miamidade.gov/myh...ome/
propmap.asp
before you caricature those people in opposition to Chavismo: you'll find that some of those in bed with MVRrismo are far, far wealthier snobs than the people you're taking potshots at.
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