Ecuador's President Rafael Correa yesterday via his Twitter account compared Venezuela's present economic war to the one waged against Salvador Allende in Chile. These economic wars are one of the strategies used to attack revolutions through shortages, blockades, and international pressure. Throughout history, they have been used to thwart and overturn the Latin American peoples' sovereign will, as was the case in Chile during Salvador Allende's democratically elected Popular Unity Government. teleSUR
