Trump takes aim at Cuba, holds Havana responsible for Venezuelan crisis

[Judi Lynn]

31. Nearly swallowed my tongue seeing your author refer to Petkoff as a "leftwing opposition figure."

Good grief!

That told me all I needed to know about the writer of your reference. Anyone in the US who has followed Venezuelan politics in the last 18 years is well aware of that professional spinner and liar.

Will never forget his article he ran in his filthy rag, Tal Cual, in which he photoshopped a picture taken of Hugo Chavez giving a speech to a women's association, in which he held aloft a red rose. Petkoff had his minions substitute a GUN so it appeared Chavez was holding a gun in the air as he spoke to the women, as if he was threatening them, or something.

So damned shabby.

Here we go, I'm posting the photo again, after having posted it repeated times over the years:



Here's the photo they screwed with:







"Le Monde" and journalist Paulo Paranagua at war without truce against Venezuela

Tarik Bouafia
Investig'action


The indignation to variable geometry of some journalists is a fact worth mentioning. Paulo A. Paranagua, journalist of the newspaper Le Monde, is a test. The Brazilian professional allegedly had been imprisoned in Argentina between 1975 and 1977 by a military man in an extreme left Peronist movement.

If the above were true, Paranagua seems to have turned the page in the same way as his Venezuelan colleague Théodore Petkoff, a former guerrilla turned Liberal and now runs the opposition newspaper Tal Cual.

Paranagua, regular columnist of Le Monde, is the perfect caricature of the dominant journalism in permanent crusade against the progressive governments of Latin America and in particular against the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.

Criticize these countries and their political processes with which the dissent is clearly their fundamental right. However, his evident media frenzy against countries that have decided to liberate themselves to a greater or lesser degree from US tutelage and start deep social transformations has become obsessive.

Venezuela, at the head of this resurrection of a part of South America, often pays a high cost for it. The work of this alleged journalist is to spread a sea of ​​lies, approaches and errors of all kinds in addition to some "analysis" of shoddy.

In an article on Venezuela published on February 26, 2015 on lemonde.fr and entitled Au Venezuela, the stratégie de la tension du président Maduro (1), the author is positioned as a defender of the opposition and of "human rights." This article begins: "The violent arrest of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, on February 19 is the tangible sign of a repressive escalation in Venezuela. Ledezma will accompany another opposition figure, Leopoldo López, imprisoned a year ago in the sinister military prison of Ramo Verde. " A reader with little knowledge of the current situation in Venezuela might think, reading these lines, that Venezuela has transformed into a dictatorship in which opponents are imprisoned without charge or due process. Without a doubt, this is the message that Paranagua seeks to convey.

Some sentences later Paranagua returns to the charge addressing the "summary dismissal" in reference to the dismissal of the deputy and leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado. The situation is presented without making any mention of the reasons for his dismissal or imprisonment. As if President Nicolás Maduro had risen one morning and, by not having to do, had ordered the forces of order to attack his opponents. Reality is a bit more complex than it seems.

This supposed journalist tells the facts without contextualizing them, which prevents us from understanding how this situation is reached. The truth is that Antonio Ledezma, Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado are not ordinary or peaceful opponents as Paranagua presents them. They are really coup leaders and enemies of democracy, peace and freedom.

In fact, since the dawn of the Bolivarian revolution they have repeatedly tried to create the favorable conditions to overthrow first President Hugo Chávez and then his successor Nicolás Maduro Moros.

More translated from French:
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=198636

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http://paranaguafanclub.over-blog.com/2015/03/paulo-paranagua-n-est-pas-un-agent-de-la-cia.html

We all know better than that, or we would, if it weren't for ignorance and apathy in some cases.