Today ZNet published a piece by Kim Scipes titled“An unholy alliance: The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela”.
The AFL-CIO’s “Solidarity Center” (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of the business community FEDCAMARAS (along with at least some of the leaders of the Catholic Church) just prior to the April 2002 coup attempt that briefly deposed the democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez. This I reported last year in the April 2004 issue of Labor Notes (For this put in the larger context of AFL-CIO foreign policy, see my May 2005 article in Monthly Review)
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