Familiar Pattern: The West’s Marginalization of Venezuela

The corporate mass media are well aware what side of the class war their bread is buttered. Their reporting of the events in Venezuela is a case in point.
‘Venezuela Leaps Towards Dictatorship,’ said The Economist.
‘Venezuela Flirts With Outright Dictatorship,’ exclaimed The Independent.
The New York Times headlined with ‘Venezuela’s Descent Into Dictatorship,’ while The Guardian’s ‘Let’s Call Venezuela What it is under Maduro: a Dictatorship,’ was even more forthright in it’s message.
To top it all, Newsweek went for the double whammy, ‘Putin Steps In To Bolster Venezuelan Dictator, Maduro.’
The sensationalist headlines that present a totally distorted picture of the events unfolding in the country, illustrate the extent of the anti-Venezuela government propaganda witnessed since president Nicolas Maduro augmented the Venezuelan constitution spearheaded by his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, in 1999.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on August 11, 2017.