Venezuela: Terrorist campaign backed by US, corporate media
Venezuela: Terrorist campaign backed by US, corporate media
Saturday, May 17, 2014
By Steve Ellner
The private media and important actors both at home and abroad, including Washington, have downplayed, and in some cases completely ignored, the terrorist actions perpetrated against the Venezuelan government over the past three months.
Among the latest examples that have gone underreported abroad is the assassination in late April of Eliezer Otaiza, a historic leader of the Chavista movement and president of the Caracas city council.
Another is a series of reports issued by interior secretary Miguel Rodriguez Torres that establish connections between terrorist actions and sectors of the Venezuelan opposition. The reports have includeda wealth of documents — including videos, emails, phone call registries, and phone call recordings.
The opening remarks of Robert Menendez, chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in hearings to study proposed sanctions against Venezuela shows how the charges of opposition-promoted terrorism get brushed aside.
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