Extreme World: Venezuela (video showing the depravity that is Venezuelan violence):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtjiwd_extreme-world-venezuela_newsNo words. Seriously. I am simply unable to form a coherent reply to how horrific this society is. I. Cannot. Explain. It.
Just watch.
I denounce any Chavista or pro-Chavez "leftist" that tries to defend this bullshit. It is unacceptable. It is totally horrific.
BTW. DEATH is shown in this video. So the queasy may not want to watch.
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You're calling the UN Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean liars? They rated Venezuela "THE most equal country in Latin America," on income distribution, due to the Chavez government's anti-poverty programs. Are you calling the Millennium Project liars? That Project includes Hillary Clinton, whose State Department puts out anti-Chavez propaganda! The Millennium Project said that Venezuela, unlike many countries, had not just made progress on all of its Millennium goals (mostly anti-poverty goals), it had met all of its Millennium goals. Are you calling the Gallup polling organization liars? They ranked Venezuela fifth in the world on its citizens' sense of well-being!
This is not propaganda. This is reality--from a number of objective sources. Extreme statements like this, of yours-- ("Instead he was SUBJECTED to CHAVEZMO PROPAGANDA about ... how the government has 'reduced poverty.'"
--make all of your statements suspect. It is not propaganda that Chavez has significantly reduced poverty. It is a recognized fact. Why can't you just say, yes, Chavez has significantly reduced poverty but there is also a crime problem and he and his government haven't done enough about that or have failed miserably on that score (if that's what you want to say)? Why does this failure or weakness in the country--for surely you don't assert that Chavez approves of murder and other crimes and prisoners taking over a prison--which the government has not solved, drive you to such extremity, that you would deny facts and reality on another issue?
One of your suspect statements: The Chavistas can't change the crime rate "because the Boligarchs get way too much money from the chaos that is happening there." This is not just suspect--as to being wrong--it is incoherent. How are "the Boligarchs" profiting from prisoners taking over a prison? Or from a gang of kidnappers off in the hills? Or from street murders?
Another of your suspect--indeed, provably wrong--statements: "...Chavez owns and controls the media." This is simply not true. Chavez has regulated the broadcast media in ways that are similar to our late, lamented "Fairness Doctrine" here--a right that every democratic government in the world asserts. Nobody lets just anything be broadcast on the public airwaves!
Of course, the corporate media powers in Venezuela would like to have the power to mount a successful coup d'etat. Their strenuous efforts in 2002 failed. No legitimate government would or should tolerate what they tried to do in 2002 and would clearly do again, if they weren't rightfully and lawfully curtailed by the government acting in the interest of the people and the country.
Beyond that--legitimate regulation--and, in addition, jawboning (Chavez criticizing the media) with them jawboning right back (criticizing Chavez, often with far rightwing and fascist views), the broadcast media, in Venezuela, is more than half owned and controlled by big private corporations, and print media is about half and half, as to leftist and rightist politics. This is still not reflective of the population but it is better than it used to be, especially in regard to public access to the media.
I have to laugh when anybody asserts that Chavez is "against free speech." WHO denied the members of the Chavez government access to the public airwaves during the 2002 coup attempt? WHO denied the legitimate members of the elected government THEIR right of free speech? These very same big private corporate media monopolists, who crybaby about "free speech" because they can't dominate political debate any more and kick everybody else out of it! Who are the tyrants? Who are the silencers of "free speech"? And the rest of the corporate media supports them because they, too, want to dominate and monopolize political debate and appoint governments "of, by and for" themselves.
The majority of Venezuelans have never had such true freedom of the press, as now. THEIR free speech has been enhanced in order to create balance between the elite few and the non-elite majority, between the interests of the 1% and the interests of the 99%. That is as it should be. Neither we, nor Venezuelans, should feel excluded from our own public airwaves or should have to listen to rightwing views, 24/7, on all channels all the time. That is not democracy. That is not free speech. That is corporate tyranny.
The credit Chavez gets for "reducing poverty" is a JOKE.
Brazil and Chile reduced poverty FASTER and MORE EFFECTIVELY. WITHOUT a MASSIVE INCREASE IN CRIME.
Brazil and Chile SPENT MORE on POVERTY REDUCTION while Venezuela SPENT LESS and in fact kept a LOT of rich people in power. Consider billionaire Gustavo Cisneros who hosted the 2002 failed coupsters at his Venezuelan TV station which is still on the air.
Yes, it is PROPAGANDA to continue to highlight the poverty reduction and DEFLECT from the increase in crime, violence, murders, and human rights violations happening in Venezuelan prisons.
During 2002 Chavez was not denied access to the airwaves, btw, they merely did a split screen and Chavez didn't like it because he has near daily cadenas where he sits around and bolivates. Chavez was trying to use the chain to stop the media reporting on the protests. Well it's all good now because the media can't even report on protests because if they do they get a fine (look at Globovisions recent reporting on the prison riots that the government fined them millions over for "inciting fear" .
