Bolivarian News Agency: Media Campaign Agains Venezuela Worsens in Honduras

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Media campaign against Venezuela worsens in Honduras
July 9, 2009

http://www2.minci.gob.ve/noticiaingles.asp?num=2117

The former state TV station, Channel 8, joins now the rude media campaign held by the Honduran press against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the government of Hugo Chávez after the coup dÉtat of SundayJune 28, 2009 against President Manuel Zelaya. This campaign strongly attacks the Venezuelan president by means of micros produced by opposition organizations settled in Miami (US), propaganda specially made by those who control now the TV station and SMS directly attributed to the administration of Dictator Roberto Micheletti.

The plant keeps programs with traditional video, music and images of the Central American country, messages calling on dialogue and interviews to state persons, constitutionalist lawyers and experts supporting the government imposed by the Congress of the Republic. Also, it introduces in every segment messages against the Venezuelan government and especially against President Chávez.

The most remarkable case is the series of micros produced by the Venezuelan Miami settled opposing organization, Orvex, which has been shown to be involved with anti-castrist movements in North America, to the introduction of Paramilitaries into Venezuela and that has been dedicated to systematically attempt against the government of Chávez through Internet and the international media. Of this organization, they project a micro with English subtitles called "El fracaso de las cooperativas chavistas en Venezuela" (The failure of chavist cooperatives in Venezuela).

They also circulate an Orvexs micro entitled Las nueve de Caracas (Caracas Nine), where they narrate the alleged violation of human rights and persecution to journalists in Venezuela. It is political propaganda that places Alberto Federico Ravell, Roger Santodomingo, Yon Goicochea, Francisco Usón, among other activists of the Venezuelan opposition, as heroes of the struggle for democracy.

As it was already denounced by Venezuelan-North American researcher Eva Golinger in June 2007, Overex is part of the North American organizations that through millions of dollars granted by the US State Department through the USAID and the NED "have been working with sectors of the Venezuelan opposition - including youngsters - pretending to create another colored revolution." Golinger said then that Overex (Organisation of auto-exiled Venezuelans in the US), together with other opposing groups, has tried to "create chaos and insecurity in the country, provoking repression and then justifying the international intervention. (...) with their "guarimba" and street violence activities, using the nice faces of Venezuelan youngsters, they managed to get and manipulate the worlds opinion by making many multilateral organs, like the OAS and the EU, as well as the US government and International Human Rights groups be critical to the Venezuelan government and supportive to those destabilizing groups."

The "Mel Aircraft"

Likewise, Channel 8 transmits a micro entitled, "El Mel Avión de Chávez" (Chávezs Mel Aircraft), which frontally attacks the Venezuelan president.

"Mel came in a Chávezs airplane, with a Chávezs pilot, and broke our sovereignty," quotes a voice while the screen displayed the aircraft transporting President Zelaya trying to get to Honduran land on last 5th of July.

Then it expresses "No more intervention in Honduras" at the time that it shows on the screen an image of the Venezuelan president. Afterwards, they play an Ode to Joy sang by the Venezuelan singer José Luis Rodríguez, with images of the demonstrations supporting Micheletti.

Finally, the official campaign of Channel 8, now under the rule of the civil-military dictatorship that was imposed on Honduras, keeps a permanent call against foreign intervention on the character generator, an invitation to go to www.laverdadenhonduras.com, where they show the aforementioned videos openly attacking the Venezuelan government.

Bolivarian News Agency (ABN)