Yoshie:
There hasn't been any strike of significance in Venezuela -- except the management-led lockout and the CTV-led strikes -- since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution. One will see how they get treated when they go on strike.
I don't recall Chavez sending in goon squads to break up strike meetings, even if the goal was openly to overthrow the government which was not the case in the Tehran bus drivers strike.
What of the rest of the Middle East? How do the other Middle Eastern states treat their trade unions where they exist?
I am not interested in comparing Iran to Egypt. My interest in this debate is to challenge the preposterous idea that Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have anything in common, no matter what *Chavez says*. I make my own decisions about such matters, as I have done ever since I left the world of sectarian politics.
