Counterpunch
Venezuela in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
Ricardo Vaz
Venezuela’s Elections: Resurgent Chavismo and Unrecognized Democracy (August 3, 2017)
Venezuelan Opposition “Consultation”: Playing Alone and Losing (July 19, 2017)
4 comments:
Ah ha so they really DO have toilet paper!?!?!?
None of these media assessments mean anything if Americans can't access it. And fuuuuuuuuck they can't. Nor do they have the interest.
Some good articles there showing how Western propaganda works. I saw a BBC documentary on Cuba once, apparently Cuba was opening up to capitalism and the authorities were allowing for the first time the Western media free access to the country. A very nice middle class guy who probably had a very good degree showed us Cuba and started the documentary by showing some good things about Castro's Cuba, like every child can have free ballet lesson as Castro loved ballet. And then it went into what was wrong with Cuba and the typical red menace 'communist' story was pushed without any mention of Cuba's history as a slave colony of the West. I could see the propaganda at work: communist Cuba totally evil, the free West totally good. And the reporter was a very nice middle class guy who would 'never lie' so everyone was bound to trust him. He then showed us a school near the coast and there was paintings of soldiers on a wall using rifles, he then said how children had been taught to use rifles and this seemed very Red Menace, but no mention of the constant threat of invasion by the West.
Sadly you're right, MRW. I was reading them and thinking of all the hard work put into writing them, but no one is interested other than a few people like us.
When I was young and considered myself a lefty I never had much interest in the trade unions despite being a skilled engineer. I was always more interested in third world politics.
I read Gaddafi's Green Book and much liked it.
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