Meanwhile in Venezuela!

[mecherosegarden]

539 Detained. Several students killed and while some of students were been buried, Maduro was dancing on National Television. What else can be said?

[link:http://www.talcualdigital.com/Nota/visor.aspx?id=99335&tipo=AVA|

[Coyotl]

1. Why are you linking this right-wing rag on DU?

FLETCHER: U.S. Seeks to Destabilize Venezuela
Bill Fletcher Jr. | 2/26/2014 http://washingtoninformer.com/news/2014/feb/26/fletcher-us-seeks-destabilize-venezuela/


Whether under Bush or Obama the U.S. appears determined to destabilize the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. The U.S. political establishment, including these two administrations, regularly provoke the Venezuelan government, make false allegations, and demonstrate their support for the opposition forces in Venezuela irrespective of the strategies and tactics which the opposition pursues. Enough! This must end.

The current clashes in Venezuela between pro-government and anti-government forces should be an internal matter of the Venezuelan people. The U.S. political establishment, including but not limited to the Obama administration, insists on caricaturing the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, portraying it as authoritarian. Yet this was a democratically-elected government in a bitterly divided country. The Obama administration should know a bit about bitterly divided countries and about those who insist on the illegitimacy of a democratically elected president.

The Obama administration continues to fish in troubled waters when it comes to Latin America. In 2009, while at first orally opposing the coup in Honduras, the Obama administration undermined all efforts to return the legitimate president to office. With regard to Venezuela, despite the late President Hugo Chavez’s interests in a better relationship between Venezuela and the U.S.A,, the Obama administration has seemed to be more concerned with projecting its aggressive face. Rhetorical provocations, as well as U.S. hostility toward several of Venezuela’s chief allies in the region, have led to Obama successfully seizing defeat from the jaws of victory in Latin America.

This brings us to today. The opposition, once again, seems intent on provoking the Maduro government into an action that will make the opposition appear to be victims. The mainstream U.S. media and political establishment are cooperating in this effort. Despite the fact that the Maduro government has popular support, U.S. politicians are laying the public relations foundation for regime change. All those concerned about peace and justice should simply not let this happen.

The first step is to refuse to be silent. This means that we need to take concrete steps, including writing to the White House and making it clear that we oppose U.S. interference in Venezuela; sending “letters to the editor” to your local media outlets conveying the same point; and getting organizations to which you belong to pass resolutions that are sent to the White House expressing their displeasure with the manner in which this administration is carrying out its relationship with Venezuela. The bottom line is that silence and passivity in the face of U.S. provocations can simply not be options.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is a racial justice, labor and global justice writer and activist.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. Tal Qual. Where's the air sickness bag?

From an old DU thread:

Opposition publication "Tal Cual" ran a photo of Hugo Chavez giving a speech,


with a rigged photo.

Here's the one the deviant opposition newspaper Tal Qual ran, substituting a rose Hugo Chavez held during a speech with a gun! Hey, that's freedom of expression.....

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The real photo, followed by Tal Cual's photo. [/center]
Here's a small article:

Guns & Roses in Caracas, Chavez at gunpoint

Monday, Sep 29, 2003 Print format
By: Lucila Gallino and Ralph Niemeyer

An episode worthy a Venezuelan soap opera, like the one that happened last week in the Venezuelan media, can explain once again the passions and the hatred that President Hugo Chávez and his government generate not only in Venezuela but also in the rest of the world. Would it be why Chavez is -for many- the Latin American “black sheep”?

Many things happen in Caracas every day. In this city where the violence is tolerated, the media are the daily protagonists of a mediatic explosion that shakes the nation.

On Friday September 26, the newspaper “Tal Cual” ("As such&quot , opponent of the Government, was sent to the streets with an issue that became the scandal of the week. On the cover of the paper, President Chávez is shown holding a 9mm caliber gun on the left hand. The publication of this high impact photo is the full responsibility of the Editor of the paper, who will have to appear before the Law for falsification of information.

The "little retouch" that was done to the original photo is not as simple as changing an image for another one. In this case, a gun was digitally put in place of a red rose that had been given to the President during the First Women World Forum underway in Caracas. Chavez gave a speech at the Forum in which 190 women from 27 countries participated in support of Venezuela’s revolutionary process.

The retouching of this photomontage exceeds all boundaries of respect. On the background of the scene, there was a poster with the logo of the Forum. The logo in the altered photo was erased in order to put the photo out of context.

More:
http://venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1025

From a thread by an amazing DU'er:

EFerrari Donating Member
Sat Jul-10-10 02:12 PM
Original message

Let's make a collection of the fake stories about Chavez.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x38459#38459

[Oele]

5. Indeed, Tal Cual is almost as bad as the deviant government tv station VTV.

Which showed Diosdado Cabello presenting "Angel Vivas's gun collection" and a molotov cocktail throwing hooligan photoshopped into a picture of Lopez.

BTW, do you have any recent examples to prove your point?

[mecherosegarden]

3. Because I am Venezuelan and because I believe in Human Rights

I didn't know that violation of Human Rights was only concerning to the right .Now I understand why only Republican Senators are the ones speaking up about what is happening in Venezuela. But here, there is another video from the wonderful GN doing what they do best.

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[Scootaloo]

4. Thing is...

Given your original's propensity towards outright fabrication, how is anyone to trust what it says?

[Coyotl]

6. Not to mention, the sheer lack of respect for our intelligence by playing the antecdote card

to defend posting such garbage.

If the solution to police acting improperly was to overthrow the government, we would all still be in trees flinging poo

[sabrina 1]

7. You will need credible sources not right wing fabrications to make a case for

human rights abuses here on DU. Got some other source since this one has been completely debunked here, to back up this article? From a credible source please. If these are factual reports they should be covered in more credible publications. Please don't use anything from our US Corporate Media, now sitting at around #47 on the World Free Press list. The same media who told his that Mushroom Clouds were coming our way from Iraq. Forever discredited.