My Exciting Experience

I had a very exciting experience recently. On the day of February 26, 2003  I was typing Venzuela Shutdown. After school that day I went home and realized I had to do the rest of my homework after tutoring and church and I had nothing prepared for the other story . So immedietly after I got home at 7:30 I began starting up the internet so I could get on the internet to post my story. The first thing I realized when I opened up my blog was I had a response  from the story I had typed that day. WOW  I exclaimed !!! Once again thanks Julie for posting it really makes the bloggers feel very special . Thanks again Julie :)

                                       By: Lindsay G

Comments

[Julie Corey]

Thank you for letting me know that you needed a response and I was able to provide one. Have you found out any new information about the shutdown? Is it over yet? How is this shutdown affecting our current oil shortage? Here is an excerpt from one of the on-line newspapers about the shutdown.

The opposition strike, started on Dec. 2, has choked oil shipments and stoked fears of violence in the world's No. 5 petroleum exporter. Global oil prices have hit two-year highs due to the strike and a possible U.S. war with Iraq. Opposition leaders are locked in a stalemate with the government as they vow to keep up the strike until Chavez quits and accepts early elections. They have held daily marches and urged supporters not to pay taxes to keep up the pressure.

But the populist president has refused to quit and promised to defeat the shutdown, which he calls an attempt to topple him. Chavez said that he would only consider declaring a state of emergency if the situation required such a measure.

Opponents and supporters of the president have been caught up in a bitter political conflict for more than a year and rival rallies and marches have often ended in violent clashes. Foes of Chavez say he has failed in his electoral promise to tackle poverty and corruption. Instead, they say, his self-styled "revolution" has driven Venezuela toward economic ruin and chaos with its left-wing reforms and mismanagement.

Since his 1998 election, Chavez has portrayed himself as a champion of the poor in a nation where impoverished slums sit uneasily alongside rich neighborhoods. Despite Venezuela's vast oil wealth, most of its population lives in poverty.

Opposition leaders, who accuse former paratrooper Chavez of ruling like a dictator, have appealed to the armed forces to help secure the release of Gen. Carlos Alfonso Martinez, who was involved in a short-lived April coup against Chavez.

I did not know that Mr. Chavez, the president of Venezuela, promised to fight poverty. It is sad that the country is so rich in oil and yet most of the people live in poverty.

Keep writing, this is a great story.

Julie

[LindsayG]

Hey it's me again. I never got around to thanking you or did I ????Well thank you very much I still have not found any more information on Venezuela Shutdown. Well thanks. Please, please,please continueposting to my writing.
Thanks,
Lindsay G