Media Watch
Lies, slanders and half-truths. This is what the mass media generally publish about Venezuela. We aim to draw attention to these articles, reply to their distortions and mobilise the pressure of public opinion through letter-writing campaigns, etc. Please let us know if you find an article or report on Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution that you think is inaccurate and we should reply to (
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13 November 2007
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Written by Melanie MacDonald and Jorge Martin
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We, activists at Hands Off Venezuela have come to learn that the first rule
when reading most media coverage about Venezuela is to turn it around 180
degrees If we want to find out the truth! A case in point is the recent coverage of the exchange between Chavez and
Spanish King Juan Carlos I at the 17th Ibero-American summit in Chile in which
the King told Chavez to shut up.
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31 October 2007
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Written by HoV Canada
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Macleans magazine, one of the major current
affairs magazines in Canada,
has recently published one of the most biased anti-Chavez articles ever seen in
the country. HOV Canada has taken up the article, along with organisations in
the US,
in an effort to combat the distortions and out-and-out lies.
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21 August 2007
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Written by Chuck Kaufman - www.zmag.org
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In
the 1980s the Washington Post honed an editorial page style to attack
the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua weaving half truths, total lies, innuendo, and
unsupported speculation. The paper is now using the “big lie” strategy
against the Bolivarian process in Venezuela and its democratically
elected president Hugo Chavez.
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17 July 2007
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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This week's edition of the New Statesman carries a front-page article on Venezuela by Alice O'Keeffe under the title
"Chavez: from hero to tyrant" . Hands Off Venezuela's Press Officer Charley Allan complains that this is just "
standard Washington propaganda".
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29 June 2007
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Written by Hands Off Venezuela
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This statement has been signed by the most important representatives of the Greek trade union and left wing organisations, including Manolis Glezos a hero of the Anti-Nazi movement in Europe
(1941-45), who at the age of
19 in 1941 removed, with danger to his
own life, the Nazi flag from the Acropolis - Parthenon.
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