[QUOTE="coolbeans90"][QUOTE="kuraimen"] Again can you show proof of these firings? And if you can, can you find me the reasons for the firings? And while you're at it can you tell me what do you believe will happen to people in the US if the government found out they supported overthrowing the government by force and actually carried it out. .kuraimen
PDVSA strikes in the early 2000s.
I'm confused by the wording of your question, the U.S. or the Venezuelan government?
Ok I looked into PDVSA. There are conflicting reports on the layoffs some sources say the layoffs were massive (20000) others that were not. Some sources say that it was part of restructuring the company to become from private to public sector which makes sense if the government way of doing things was different from what the company has been doing until then. You have to understand that nationalising the oil company was crucial to Chavez' plan to use the national resource to invest it in social reforms. He couldn't put that to work if a bunch of employees were not in tune with the new objectives. That would be like a company like Ford having workers that had different goals than making cars to sell to the public. Now many of those workers also signed support for making a coup against the government. That's a serious threat, for example, much bigger than what Bradley Manning did on the US since they are actually supporting a violent uprising against the government. Don't you think that the US government would have done more than just firing them? they would have probably been accused of treason and executed by now. Either way I don't see anything particularly problematic if the firings were done for those reasons. After all the plan of Chavez was much bigger than some middle class workers he had to see how to diminish the unbearable poverty his country was in. He took a risk and he succeeded in a big part by reducing it considerably. That's hardly what I call a dictatorship, more like a government with a vision and the will to do what it takes to make things better.The firings leave me a with a great amount of skepticism, TBH. Seems a little heavy-handed and authoritarian, bordering on fascist, even if motives weren't ill-intended. I mean, employees in the future had to express support for Chavez. Additionally, how many of those actually signed said petition supporting a coup?
edit: and just because the U.S. might/would do something similar doesn't make it okay.
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