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What CNN Doesn't Want You to Know About Venezuela's Elections
By: Eva Golinger
Published 5 December 2015
What CNN did was outright censorship.
Republished with permission from Venezuela Analysis.
On Monday of this week, November 30, I received a phone call from a CNN en Español producer asking me to write a column on the upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela, scheduled for this Sunday, December 6. Pleasantly surprised at the opportunity to publish in a media outlet widely known for its biased anti-government coverage of Venezuela, I accepted the offer.
Over the next day and a half, between work and personal responsibilities, I found barely enough to write the article. In fact, I first wrote one piece that was heavy on the politics, and subsequently decided it wasnt appropriate, or effective, for the CNN audience. The most critical issue to discuss with an audience already biased against the government in Venezuela was not why government policies or good or bad, or who will win at the ballot box, but rather the integrity of Venezuelas voting system.
The article was only a page and a half, under 800 words. The majority was dedicated to outlining the process of voting in Venezuela, which I have gone through numerous times as a Venezuelan citizen. I opened the article citing Jimmy Carters famous phrase on the Venezuelan electoral system, which he referred to in 2012 as the best in the world, after observing over 90 elections worldwide.
Towards the end of the article, I made a brief mention of poverty reduction under the administration of President Hugo Chavez, and also referred to errors pollsters have made in Venezuela over the years during tense elections. After sending in the article, a few hours later CNN asked me for sources on poverty reduction under Chavez, and cites for the polls. I easily obliged with their request and provided credible, accessible citations.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/What-CNN-Doesnt-Want-You-To-Know-About-Venezuelas-Elections-20151205-0010.html
XOXOX
bvar22
(39,909 posts)The IMF, Western Banks, and the Global Oil Corps ALL want to see Venezuela returned to a colony to be exploited by the RICH of the World,
and they will spend BILLIONS to achieve this.
Venezuela was able to throw off the yoke of colonialism and throw OUT their 1%,
leading a reform movement that has swept across most of Latin America.
I worked in Venezuela pre-Chavez.
Believe me...Venezuelans are way better off now than back then.
Be prepared for a barrage of propaganda.
The absentee "Landlords" (the USA being one) will stop at nothing to have their oil rich colony back,
and the locals living & dying in the forests or favelas of Caracas
VIVA Democracy!!!
It can happen here too!
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)given the margin of victory by the opposition.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)it's inevitable, since the 1% can't #### the 99% perpetually. Their days are just as numbered as they were before. They are trying hard to re-exert their control, but they are most surely going to lose it.
99% of the world won't allow them to win, in the end. If they don't know it by now, they are utterly insane.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)WTF are you talking about? It was a fair election and judging by the margin of victory, Maduro and his band of criminals pissed off even his base, so your post is all bull.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)People don't have the time to explain things to you if you don't understand what is plain to see.
You are wildly off the mark in your comprehension.
Don't attack unless you really understand what it is you're attacking.
Was speaking of the larger picture, the inevitable result of the moral battle between good and evil.
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)victory of the opposition.
I wonder if Telesur will be around much longer or if Eva Golingerl will still get a salary.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Her one talent is going to be in little demand.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)That mouthpiece for the Maduro govt?
Yeah, she's a real unbiased source.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)they're just there for members to join and rise through ranks of ever-increasing perquisites from state funds, up to the Presidency: they're not PARTIES but mechanisms to distribute the oil money (typically) to members, hangers-on, lawyers on retainer
so they're gonna claw each other's eyes out the moment they get a ministry or two
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)system; Caldera also helped break the back of this monopoly by empty parties
http://www.amazon.com/The-Magical-State-Modernity-Venezuela/dp/0226116026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Caldera
it's the same dynamic as with the PRI, actually--that a weak and anti-ideological party can't actually provide the development and ever-rising quality-of-life indexes it promised for decades (especially during any oil contraction, or when the bankers get government money to back everyone's deposits, then flee with the money in their private jets and Caldera gets double-billed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracazo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
it's in fact the failure of this promise that if the Third World dams every river, soaks the land in pesticide, gets rid of those pesky forests, and doubles its population that it'd "catch up" to Europe by, oh, say, 1965; in oil states like Venezuela the "black gold" didn't ultimately mean financial independence or appliances and medicines raining down from the heavens onto the jungle; it's the ultimate failure of this developmentalist fantasy that gave us the cartels, surging population, fundies running Washington, leveled forests, 9-11, ISIS, global warming, AND its denialism
for around seven decades we'd been thinking that we're gods and we might as well get good at it
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Had not known Rafael Caldera had been the President in earlier times before he immediately preceded Hugo Chavez, by the way.
So glad to see this mural again. It's still so strange that Rockefeller had it destroyed the first time. Wonderful the artist didn't give up getting this view made real, anyway, in Mexico. It would be amazing to see in person.
Thanks for taking the time to provide real food for thought.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)However, it made a lot of wealthy parasites even richer, so it had a great ending for them.
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)She's among the sources that will not be taken seriously at all in here, among them Telesur as a whole, VenezuelaAnalysis, Zcomm, Axis of Logic, Mark Weisbrot, among others.