7-Eleven is dropping Citgo. Keep up the boycott pressure until there is no Venezuelan gas sold in this country.
Citgo is a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, and the foreign parent became a public-relations issue for 7- Eleven because of comments by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.Chavez has called President George W. Bush the devil and an alcoholic. The U.S. government has warned that Chavez is a destabilizing force in Latin America.
7-Eleven spokesman Margaret Chabris said that, “Regardless of politics, we sympathize with many Americans’ concern over derogatory comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez.”
Chabris said a boycott of Citgo gasoline would hurt the 4,000 employees of the U.S. subsidiary, who have no connection to Venezuela.
They are doing the right thing but they seem to be doing it reluctantly. I can’t tell if Margaret Chabris is referring to Citgo’s 4,000 employees that would be harmed or 7-Eleven’s employee. Either way, she is using the 4,000 innocent employees as human shields. We can’t look the other way while American corporations fund our enemies. It’s the corporation’s job to watch out for their employees, not their customers. I can’t feel pity for 4,000 employees over the interests of 300,000,000 American citizens.
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