An article by James McEnteer in CounterPunch depicts Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa as a “ranting, bullying, hectoring politician“ who “commandeered radio, television…
This is a very sensible reply Tom London made to Owen Jones about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the U.K. Labour party. Jones has…
El Comercio, a right wing newspaper in Ecuador, published a front page interview with presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso that headlined his bogus anti-extractivist posturing.…
The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania Khalek, who was invited to speak on the University of North Carolina – Chapel…
The U.S. government’s targeting of Venezuela’s vice president is just the latest episode in ongoing attempts to subvert Venezuelan democracy
As I just wrote in Telesur, for almost two decades, opponents of the Venezuelan government have made the western media their stomping…
This Reuters article by Brian Ellsworth, a Venezuela-based correspondent, says that “Nicaraguan leftist president Daniel Ortega” had “cruised to a third consecutive…
Unsurprisingly this deceptive article is by Andres Schipani The headline reads: “TV portrayal of Chávez provokes anger in Venezuela”. EXCERPT: Moisés Naím,…
An Economist article recently stated that “In 2001 Venezuela was the richest country in South America; it is now among the poorest.”…
For over a century, a key feature of the USA’s propaganda system, more commonly known as its mass media, has been the…
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