Although I believe that boycotts are generally ineffective, I can't help but vote with my wallet and refuse to trade with Citgo from now on... Indirectly, doing business with Citgo benefits that Che/Castro wanna-be... That's the free market for you- we all have choices!
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I would much rather buy my gas at CITGO and support a president who has been democratically elected and whose mission is to help its people (building schools and hospitals) as opposed to buy at BP Amoco or any other oil company whos money is instead supporting the most brutal dictatoships that this world has ever seen (Saudi Arabia).
Andrea.
Well said, Andrea. All socialist dictators presumably are acting to 'help their people'... It's how they build their populist support for their more radical ideas.
It's true also that we do support some brutal regimes with petrodollars- the difference is that most dictators, unlike Chavez, don't bite the hand that feeds them so often.
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