Venezuela Struggle

pato · Posted: 13 Apr 2004 08:40 AM Post subject: Venezuela Struggle

I don't know how informed you guys are with the conflict over in Venezuela, but it really pisses me off. It pisses me off that we don't get the truth over here, we only get what the U.S. Government and Media want us to know. Newschannels and Newspapers only show the Anti-Chavez marches and not the Pro-Chavez marches, which in reality have more people in favor of Chavez than against. Who are we supposed to believe? Is Chavez really as bad a person as the media makes him seem?

Excerpt from http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16255

For five centuries, Venezuela has been run by a minority of very white people, pure-blood descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. To most of the 80 percent of Venezuelans who are brown, Hugo Chavez is their Nelson Mandela, the man who will smash the economic and social apartheid that has kept the dark-skinned millions stacked in cardboard houses in the hills above Caracas while the whites live in high-rise splendor in the city center. Chavez, as one white Caracas reporter told me with a sneer, gives them bricks and milk, and so they vote for him.

Why am I explaining the basics of Venezuela to you? If you watched BBC TV, or Canadian Broadcasting, you'd know all this stuff. But if you read the New York Times, you'll only know that President Chavez is an "autocrat," a "ruinous demagogue," and a "would-be dictator," who resigned when he recognized his unpopularity.

Odd phrasings – "dictator" and "autocrat" – to describe Chavez, who was elected by a landslide majority (56 percent) of the voters. Unlike our President.

mof · Posted: 13 Apr 2004 09:02 AM Post subject:

See the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It was released in theatres late last year or maybe early this year. Very informative and I thought it showed both sides of the story.
Chavez for sure is no angel. But the media and those who control them sure aren't either.

revramrod · Posted: 16 Apr 2004 01:27 AM Post subject:

elchrist · Posted: 16 Apr 2004 10:42 AM Post subject:

elchrist · Posted: 16 Apr 2004 10:46 AM Post subject: Anarchy Burger

I remember reading an article a few months ago that quoted President Chavez accusing President Bush as a liar. I think the word was "bullshit."

Chavez proclaimed that Bush's coup d'etat would be unsuccessful.

revramrod · Posted: 16 Apr 2004 12:24 PM Post subject:

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