Now they want their jobs back! Huh!
www.vheadline.com Posted: Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 3:42:54 AM By: Oscar Heck
For readers outside Venezuela, this is not a joke. This is really happening.
VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: I was watching TV here in one of the Caracas barrios (slum areas) this afternoon between 3 and 5 ... as most typical "males" might do, I was flipping back and forth between RCTV, Venevision, Televen, Globovision and Venezolana de Television.
It was "cartoon time" on Venevision, Televen and RCTV, news on Globovision and government programming on Venezolana de Television (discussions with and engineer and an economist -- also the live broadcast of the inauguration of a new high-tech customs operation ... reminds me of BBC in the 80s and early 90s). Venezolana de Television is the government-run TV station in Venezuela.
- As part of their news highlights, Globovision was covering the government's present legal action against the privately-owned TV stations (those named in the previous paragraph- including Globovision).
I thought to myself, that finally, they're going to stop transmitting anti-Chavez propaganda ... especially since court proceedings have already been opened, which may lead to the 4 private TV stations losing their operating licenses.
To my surprise, when the commercial break came, they were showing anti-government propaganda again!
Now, the Coordinadora Democratica (the anti-Chavez opposition coordinating group) was inviting "all Venezuelans" to go march the streets to show their support for 'the people of PDVSA' ... more specifically, to support the thousands of PDVSA employees that have recently been fired because they refused to show up for work in support of the opposition's "stoppage" and sabotage of PDVSA.
Here are some of the slogans, inciting people to take the streets:
- "Come, all Venezuelans, to march the streets in support of the people of the petroleum industry..!"
- "For the defense of freedom!"
- "For the defense of democracy!"
- "For the defense of the nation!"
- "We are all PDVSA"
Now they want their jobs back! Huh!
Would you rehire an employee that suddenly arbitrarily decided to not show up for work for several weeks?
Would you rehire an employee who broke your equipment (before leaving on an unplanned extended Christmas vacation) and left with the keys that control the main operations center in your refinery?
I wouldn't. I would be a fool to do so! Would you?
Now, here comes the worst part of it all:
I switched channels to see if this propaganda was being aired on the other 3 private stations. I was floored! They were passing the same propaganda every 10 minutes or so ... during cartoon time!
The opposition ... Ortega, the two Fernandez's, the Coordinadora Democratica and most all other anti-Chavez opposition members, have been calling themselves "civilized, democratic, peaceful"
...my foot!
They tried unsuccessfully to shut down the educational system. Since they did not succeed ... I suppose they decided to shove political anti-Chavez propaganda down the throats of children during their cartoon time.
- For readers outside Venezuela, this is not a joke ... this is really happening.
How much lower can the opposition go to? I can only imagine!
Oscar Heck oscarheck111@hotmail.com