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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Chavez: the Motive-Hunting of a Malignant NGO
March 7, 2013 ... death of Hugo Chavez provoked HRW to immediately (within hours) smear the Chavez government's legacy. "Chávez's ... -
International Crisis Group Against Venezuela
May 21, 2013 The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as “working to prevent conflict worldwide” but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict. Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released recently. -
Call of Duty: Feeding the Venezuela Haters or Just Dumb Fun?
December 7, 2013 ... wasteland of shelled out cities. During the ten or so hours of shooting/stabbing/nuking anything that moves (no ... African shanty town with a high powered machine gun a few hours later. I started slipping away from the series around ... gamers engaging in ridiculous fantasies after working hours isn't the problem; policy makers doing the same thing ... -
Scarcity and Starvation? Venezuelan Food FAQs
October 5, 2013 ... 7: Is it “normal” for Venezuelans to spend four hours waiting in line to do their shopping? Short answer: As ... BBC Radio 4 viewers have been led to believe, waiting five hours in line at a supermarket is not “normal”. Lines at ... mostly consisting of once weekly shopping trips. Four hours isn't impossible, but anecdotal evidence from myself ... -
The Economist Gets Economical with the Truth on Venezuela's Municipal Elections
December 15, 2013 ... held the White House with 51.1%, while Mitt Romney had 47.2%. Do those few percentage points of difference mean that ... -
Venezuela's Maduro and His Motivations to Take in Snowden: The Wall Street Journal Misses the Mark
July 12, 2013 In the wake of President Nicolas Maduro's offer of asylum to Edward Snowden, there has been a renewed wave of criticism of the Venezuelan government. There has been some good commentary, and plenty of the usual misinformation. -
Beyond the Caricature, The Poor People’s President
May 26, 2013 ... palace. In fact, they had helped engineer the coup. In the hours leading up to the putsch, the TV stations ran constant ... of the march, they provided blanket nonstop coverage for hours, pre-empting regular programming. When shooting broke ... -
Venezuela Promotes Breastfeeding over Baby Food, Corporate Media Spins Out of Control
June 20, 2013 Venezuela’s national assembly is debating a reform to its breastfeeding law which could see baby food companies like Nestle fined in certain situations. The corporate media have reacted hysterically to the law, claiming that President Nicolas Maduro is “taking bottles from babies’ mouths”. -
Chavez's Death, Like His Life, Shows the World's Divisions
March 24, 2013 People don't know the unique role Chavez played in bringing about the unity and second independence of Latin America. -
Human Rights Watch Get it Wrong on Venezuela…Again
January 15, 2013 ... agents detained his wife and children for several hours and took two computers from his home”. This is true, ... -
Devaluation, Consumerism, and the Media
February 11, 2013 ... Asia, often children, have to work in sweatshops for 16 hours a day or more, with zero labor stability and absurdly ... -
Sins of Omission
March 22, 2013 ... the passing notation that masses of citizens marched for hours alongside Chavez’ casket—much is made of Chavez’ ... -
The New York Times on Venezuela and Honduras: A Case of Journalistic Misconduct
May 10, 2013 ... of the de facto regime that issued a diktat within hours to dissolve practically every branch of government, ... -
Exposing Five Key Media Myths about Chavez’s Health and Swearing-in
January 8, 2013 ... their laws, everyone, even opposition supporters, spends hours each day debating and discussing politics and ...