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Edited on Sun Jun-21-09 04:23 AM by Judi Lynn
in the Food and Agriculture Organization probably has a more accurate sense of the overview in Venezuela, than does a cretin many Latin America news watchers have learned to disregard almost always, one of the pathetic trio of "creative" Latin America "news"writers who worked at the New York Times: Francisco Toro, Simon Romero, and Juan Forero. The first was almost forced to leave when it was discovered he was deeply connected to the Caracas oligarchy, even belonging to an anti-Chavez NGO which receives funding earmarked for them by the Bush administration. Forero, of course, joined a rabidly anti-Latin American-leftist "news"paper, the Washington Post. Here's a link which popped out instantly when I started a brief search for Forero: Sunday, February 15, 2009 Going Nowhere with Juan Forero This morning Juan Forero was on the anti-Chavez beat for the second day in a row. On Saturday he runs a fine CIA-inspired piece about how anti-democratic the Chavez government and its supporters are. This morning he was beating the drum again, but with a twist. In the piece, we hear Chavez supporters chanting "Oooh, aaah, Chavez no se va!" and Forero claims that it translates to "Oooh, aaah, Chavez is going nowhere!"
My Spanish is not fluent, but it is adequate - and I'm confident that "no se va" never means "going nowhere." An accurate translation would be "Chavez is not going away" or "Chavez is not abandoning (the struggle)."
It's no secret that Juan Forero works very hard to discredit and misinform listeners about the situation in South America, but I was surprised that he would employ such an easily discredited mistranslation to forward his agenda. I mean it's not like the mistranslation of Ahmadinejad's Farsi statement about Israel's Zionist government "vanishing from the pages of time" being stated as "wiping Israel off the map" - where hardly anyone in the US speaks Farsi. There are millions of people in the US who speak Spanish fluently and millions of others who know enough Spanish to catch such a crude mistranslation as Forero employs.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to matter how inaccurate and misleading Juan Forero's "reporting" for NPR is, he definitely "no se va" - Que lastima (What a pity.) http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/2009/02/going-nowhere-with-juan-forero.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Colombia: Atrocity's Apologist NYT's Juan Forero Covered for Embassy by Narco News Bulletin 6:47pm Mon Oct 8 '01
Forero Failed to Disclose the Presence of U.S. Embassy Official During Interviews With Plan Colombia Mercenary Pilots Narco News 2001
Atrocity's Apologist NYT's Juan Forero Covered for Embassy A Narco News Global Alert By Al Giordano
Here at The Narco News Bulletin, we set out to cover the drug war sixteen months ago with the idea of breaking the manufactured consensus behind U.S.-imposed drug policy on the rest of our América. We'd rather end a senseless war before it escalates than seek an illusory glory through covering it. We quickly found that we had to monitor and report about the abhorrent conduct of the United States news media in Latin America. It's clear to us, in the summer of 2001, that although the majority of correspondents are beating war drums, no single major news media has fallen to the depths of inauthentic coverage as dishonestly as the New York Times.
The Times wants war, and last week showed its willingness to manipulate news coverage and hide key facts from readers in order to justify atrocity.
The Times has now moved its South American base from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Bogotá, Colombia, and has installed as its resident agent-in-charge a relatively untested correspondent by the name of Juan Forero.........
Full text at: http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=71601&group=webcast http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2001-October/000971.html~~~~~~~~~~Sunday, December 10, 2006 Just What is it?
Which Juan Forero do we believe? The one on November 27, 2006 who broadcast an economist in Venezuela complaining that the Chavez government would be "better off spending its gasoline subsidies to promote mass transit" or yesterday's Forero who noted "all the money the (Chavez) government is spending at home. Venezuela’s government is building subway lines..." Hmm...sounds like mass transit to me!
In yesterday's piece, we hear how "the economic growth has been astounding here since 2003," BUT "many economists and businessmen here say the economy is far from healthy and in fact what it is is schizophrenic – it is one of the world’s fastest growing but it produces few jobs, consumerism is rampant, but few want to invest."
The main thrust of yesterday's piece is to claim that Venezuela's economy is only doing all right because of the "oil boom" -- even though economist Mark Weisbrot has noted "the government has budgeted conservatively to create a cushion against any decline in oil prices. It has based its 2007 budget on an average oil price of $29 a barrel — far below this year's average of $58 a barrel." Forero uses telling phrases that reveal his anti-Chavez bias: - schizophrenic: describing the economy as such is both offensive to people with schizophrenia and a way of writing off the economic achievements of Venezuela under the Chavez government.
- The Bolivarian bourgeoisie: How Forero describes those profiting from "lucrative" government contracts. The implication is that there is at best hypocrisy in the claims of socialism of the government and perhaps even corruption.
- A fine veneer: how Forero describes the effects of Venezuelan government spending on infrastructure projects. Frankly, I'd be happy for a little veneer of social spending on schools, transportation, and health care here in the USA!
As I've noted before, Forero has a less than shining history as a journalist. His low point came when he parroted the US Government line about the coup against Chavez back in 2002. Forero's track record really has to make you wonder who he works for besides NPR and the NY Times. http://lanr.blogspot.com/2006/12/which-juan-forero-do-we-believe.htmlHow To Read A Juan Forero Story In Three Easy Steps
http://www.borev.net/2009/05/how_to_read_a_juan_forero_stor.html~~~~~~~~~Forero's contribution to the Venezuelan oligarchy's attempted coup: ~snip~ The Pre-Coup Show
In recent weeks, though, the simulators of the mass media controlled the microphone.
Narco News, Vheadline.com and other reputable online news agencies warned of a coup in progress. Those reports were ignored by the commercial press, and even by the "alternative" press.
But a whisper did begin among commercial journalists that eventually grew into a crescendo of shrieks, planting the seeds to harvest later: If there was to be a coup d'etat, it would not be called a coup, but, rather, a "popular" revolt.
It was on March 19 that there came a decided shift in the message portrayed by propagandists who call themselves journalists, led by Juan Forero of the New York Times, who was, by now, installed in Caracas. (Narco News, last year, reported that Forero allowed U.S. officials in Colombia to monitor his interviews with private-sector U.S. mercenaries there, without having disclosed that fact in his reports.)
It was no longer sufficient to call Venezuela's president "left-wing" or point out his disagreements with Washington over Plan Colombia, OPEC or other policy matters.
The big lie, orchestrated and sung in harmony by the mainstream media, was floated by Forero of the NY Times on March 19th: That Chávez's "autocratic style and left-wing policies have alienated a growing number of people."
"Although he promised a 'revolution' to improve the lives of the poor, Mr. Chávez has instead managed to rankle nearly every sector -- from the church to the press to the middle class -- with his combative style, populist speeches and dalliances with Fidel Castro of Cuba and the Marxist rebels of Colombia," claimed Forero.
Forero, along with other official "journalists" also began pushing heavily the spin that the "military forces" of Venezuela had turned against the Chávez government. It was then, in mid-March, that a slow drip of military brass was trotted out before the media. Forero quoted one colonel as saying that Chávez "has said the military forces were with him. I wanted to tell people they were not.''
"Mario Ivan Carratu, a retired vice admiral with close contacts in the military," wrote Forero, "said some active-duty officers had spoken of playing a more aggressive role. He said a few had even privately spoken of a need to stage a coup to oust Mr. Chávez."
''I have been in contact with many active officers, and they are of the belief that if society does not organize to take steps, then they are going to have to take control,'' said Mr. Carratu.
Forero, true to form, added the now-obviously fictional chestnut that the dissident military brass "are well aware that the United States has said it will not support a coup."
(As the Washington Post reported on Saturday, there had been a constant march of businessmen, media moguls and military officials in and out of the US Embassy in Caracas in the days before the coup.)
But this was Forero's story, and he reported:''The armed forces do not want to gain a place in history with a coup,'' said one high-ranking military officer, who asked to remain unidentified. ''If they want to pass into history, then what they want to do is support civil society in its protests.'' From that moment on it was clear to the close observer: A simulation of "Civil Society" and "popular revolt" would be staged to "justify" a military coup d'etat. More: http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html~~~~~~~~~~Will You Please Kill This Man, For Juan Forero?
Hi everybody, will you do Washington Post reporter Juan Forero a small favor, please? The guy in this picture is a possible FARC agent named Oliver "Fatty" Solarte, and Forero wants him dead. DEAD. The Post wrote a whole long story about him today which concludes, ahem: "The truth is that catching Oliver or killing Oliver would kill the Southern Bloc," the man said, referring to Solarte by his first name, "because he is the owner of the contacts." Yikes. What's this all about? According to Forero's crack investigation, the "Southern Bloc" of the FARC is all Ecuador's fault, for sharing a border with Colombia, and Colombia would totally be able to destroy the FARC if only they could invade Ecuador and pry those "contacts" from Solarte's cold dead hands.
The information is incontrovertible, because it comes from Forero's knowledgeable and 100% disinterested source-base including, let's see: unnamed Colombian intelligence officials, unnamed paid government informers, unnamed "Senior Colombian officials," and Sergio Jaramillo, Colombia's vice minister for defense. Indisputable!
So just like with the cocaine trade, Colombia's civil war is not the fault of the Colombian government, but rather, its neighbors, who must be destroyed. KILL! http://www.borev.net/2009/05/will_you_please_kill_this_man_for_juan_forero.html
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