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Preferred Conclusions: The BBC, Syria, and Venezuela
September 19, 2017 ... articles, this one focused on claims that Venezuela is a 'dictatorship': '"The dictatorship is living its last days and Maduro knows it," ... of American States (OAS) likened the country to a dictatorship.' While recognising that the Maduro government ... -
A Response to Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on Venezuela
June 7, 2017 ... there? How does the opposition win major elections in a dictatorship? It gets worse. Julio Borges, as Taibbi also ... they muzzle the opposition”. That doesn’t happen in a dictatorship folks. Of course, serious criticisms can be made ... or read English that the United States is basically a dictatorship? With a media willing to cooperate, it would be ... -
A Review of US Media Coverage on Venezuela
August 25, 2017 ... called the results a “sham” and a “step toward dictatorship.” The U.S. military reported in April that ... New York Times editorializes about Maduro’s “drive to dictatorship.” This follows almost three years of ... rhetoric. The argument now is that Venezuela has become a dictatorship. Previously, the argument was that it was ... -
Comparing Venezuela’s Media with Our Own
May 17, 2017 ... The editorials HRW listed have titles like “Maduro’s dictatorship,” “Maduro’s Venezuela becomes a dictatorship,” “Venezuela is officially a dictatorship,” “Venezuela’s descent into ... -
"The Violence Will be Retweeted"
April 13, 2017 ... need four things: to depict themselves as victims of a dictatorship which is punishing and pursuing them, to make ... of extreme confusion, where only ideas relating to dictatorship, violations of human rights and press freedoms, ... -
Trump Is Not the Venezuelan Supreme Court
July 30, 2017 ... 1999 was briefly annulled during the short-lived Carmona dictatorship which was backed by the opposition’s core ... Lopez, Julio Borges, Henry Ramos, and many others). That dictatorship was also backed by the U.S government and major ... past fifteen years, the tactic of labelling Venezuela a “dictatorship” has been central to whitewashing a violent ... -
On Venezuela’s Regional Elections: Some Elephants in the Room
October 24, 2017 ... of April 2002 which temporarily succeeded and installed a dictatorship under Pedro Carmona. Never forget that the New ... playing field” thesis is nonsense “We’re in a dictatorship – so please vote for us!” What explains this ... in Canada, the Bush administration installed a brutal dictatorship in Haiti. Both Reagan and “W” Bush were ... -
We Mustn’t Back Another US-Led Regime Change In Latin America
August 10, 2017 ... the country could destroy it and herald in another brutal dictatorship, which would be disastrous for the poor in ... -
Reject the International "Fake News" Attack on Venezuela!
September 5, 2017 ... from the same song sheet -- that Venezuela is a "socialist dictatorship" with a collapsing economy, and that the ... these alarming provocations, far from being a repressive dictatorship, the Maduro government has acted with remarkable ... -
Abracadabra: How the WaPo Turned 111 Venezuelan Jewish Emigrants into a Mass Exodus
January 12, 2017 ... South American democracy as a starvation-ridden communist dictatorship . Faced with the reality that the elected ... -
Open Letter to the People and Government of the United States of America by the People of Venezuela
September 6, 2017 ... of Chile in 1973, paving the way for the ruthless dictatorship of August Pinochet to take power. These threats ... -
Venezuela Regional Elections: Chavismo in Triumph, Opposition in Disarray and Media in Denial
October 20, 2017 ... they claimed they were on the verge of “tumbling the dictatorship”. But barring a few isolated occasions, the ... to the streets. So after all the talk of tumbling the dictatorship and demanding that Maduro step down tomorrow, ... on with the absurd discourse of “ voting against the dictatorship ”. In the end the absurdity caught up to them ... -
Has Maduro Really Dissolved the National Assembly in Venezuela?
March 31, 2017 ... literally overnight. De facto making Venezuela, well, a dictatorship, according to the mainstream press. But is it ... their accusations surrounding Venezuela’s descent into "dictatorship" in the international arena. What about the ... back home. Moreover, far from being reduced to a dictatorship, Venezuela looks well on its way to ... -
NBC Calls Hugo Chavez a Dictator, Guardian Cheers Actual Saudi Dictator
November 8, 2017 ... for Saudi Arabia – perhaps the most brutal and backward dictatorship on Earth – as news articles. Saudi ... -
A Note About Migration From Venezuela in the Chavista Era
January 20, 2017 ... page ad in a major newspaper – welcoming the Carmona dictatorship that ousted Chavez for two days. That alone ...