1.   PDVSA executives, including the directors of the gas, petrochemicals and production units, claim the appointments were based on politics and are eroding corporate morale.

2.   Executives and white-collar workers claim the appointments are eroding corporate morale because they were based on politics, not merit.

3.   Measly wages and low public trust have eroded military morale.

4.   Oil company executives, including directors of the petrochemicals, production and gas units, say the appointments were political and were eroding corporate morale.

5.   Protesting workers claim the appointments are eroding corporate morale because they were based on politics, not merit.

6.   The deserters reported that Burmese troops were suffering from dysentery and eroding morale.

7.   They argue the appointments were based on politics, not merit, and have eroded corporate morale.

8.   They claim the appointments are eroding corporate morale because they were based on politics, not merit.

9.   However in the last weeks of the siege, no more reinforcements were sent, further eroding the morale of the soldiers and sowing panic among the population.