Venezuela says international media 'distorting reality'

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela says international media 'distorting reality'
Monday, September 21, 2015



Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez. Caracas, September 17.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said on September 17 that international media were looking to “scam” the world over what is happening on the border between Venezuela and Colombia.

“The transnational media is trying to distort reality,” she said during her speech at an international human rights conference in Caracas. “Venezuela isn't violating the human rights of our Colombian brothers and sisters.”

The conference, titled “International Human Rights on the Border: Implications of the Mass Colombian Exodus”, took place at the Teresa Carreno theatre.

Rodriguez said that since President Nicolas Maduro decreed a “state of exception” in August to combat the crime, paramilitarism and contraband affecting Venezuela, mainstream media has tried to misrepresent the reality on the border.

More:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60139

[nichomachus]

1. Was there any question?

The international media is distorting reality almost everywhere to serve the neoliberal agenda.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Who expects the American corporate media not to attack socialism abroad as they do domestically?

[Marksman_91]

3. Hasn't this government of asshats been using this excuse for a few years now?

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It's kinda gotten to the point where the reality is pretty much what is reported. Thank God for social media in the case that certain individuals don't believe even supposedly left-wing media outlets like The Guardian.