Venezuelan Warmth
By Vijay Prasad
Frontline, Volume 22 - Issue 26, Dec. 17 - 30, 2005
Meanwhile, in Quincy, Massachusetts, Linda Kelly and her family of five are happy to get their Christmas present early from Santa Chavez. "He's doing the right thing," said Kelly to a journalist from Seattle Intelligencer. "The people of Venezuela are lucky to have him. That's the way government is supposed to be taking care of the little guy." Kelly's town has already lost two of its residents to the Iraq war. Last year, a suicide bomber killed Army Private Norman Darling, who joined the forces to give his four-year-old daughter Camryn a better life. In September 2003, a roadside bomb killed Sergeant Todd Caldwell. His mother, Gladys, called upon mothers like her "to get up in arms and call Senators and say, `We want these guys home because they're getting killed off.'" Caldwell was the 285th U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. As Venezuelan oil at discount prices entered his neighbourhood, the 2,000th soldier was killed. The Bush plan in Iraq requires the pacification of the resistance before any oil company will be comfortable enough to invest its windfall profits into the laden oilfields. This means that more of the U.S. poor from places like Quincy will be out there securing the Iraqi landscape for oil companies who do not benefit them. Chavez' action not only helps people like Linda Kelly but also shows up the inhumanity of the war-for-oil policy that absorbs the White House and the U.S.-led oil firms.
Frontline, Volume 22 - Issue 26, Dec. 17 - 30, 2005
Meanwhile, in Quincy, Massachusetts, Linda Kelly and her family of five are happy to get their Christmas present early from Santa Chavez. "He's doing the right thing," said Kelly to a journalist from Seattle Intelligencer. "The people of Venezuela are lucky to have him. That's the way government is supposed to be taking care of the little guy." Kelly's town has already lost two of its residents to the Iraq war. Last year, a suicide bomber killed Army Private Norman Darling, who joined the forces to give his four-year-old daughter Camryn a better life. In September 2003, a roadside bomb killed Sergeant Todd Caldwell. His mother, Gladys, called upon mothers like her "to get up in arms and call Senators and say, `We want these guys home because they're getting killed off.'" Caldwell was the 285th U.S. soldier killed in Iraq. As Venezuelan oil at discount prices entered his neighbourhood, the 2,000th soldier was killed. The Bush plan in Iraq requires the pacification of the resistance before any oil company will be comfortable enough to invest its windfall profits into the laden oilfields. This means that more of the U.S. poor from places like Quincy will be out there securing the Iraqi landscape for oil companies who do not benefit them. Chavez' action not only helps people like Linda Kelly but also shows up the inhumanity of the war-for-oil policy that absorbs the White House and the U.S.-led oil firms.
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