Hector Abad's piece assailing Chavez has now been corrected twice by the UK Observer. I suspect many people have written to the…
This AP news article is actually a scandalously poor op-ed that makes no distinction at all between allegations and facts. The…
A Media Lens reader, “Peter”, succinctly explains that Amnesty is, as of this month, still not willing to call for an arms…
This editorial calls Chavez “a democratically elected autocrat” in presumed contrast to Stephen Harper. The editors claim that Chavez “caused Venezuela’s democratic institutions…
RE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/10/hugo-chavez-hector-abad-latin-america-left Dear Guardian / Observer editors This op-ed by Hector Abad makes at least two false claims that should be corrected. …
UPDATED March 11, 2013 The Independent said they wanted to publish my letter (see below) but balked after I insisted that it…
The death of Hugo Chavez provoked HRW to immediately (within hours) smear the Chavez government's legacy. "Chávez's Authoritarian Legacy: Dramatic Concentration of…
Between 2006 to January 2012, Rory Carroll was the UK Guardian’s Caracas based correspondent. He supplied about 75% of the liberal UK…
UPDATE Below – added March 13, 2013 Over two years ago, in January of 2011, Amnesty USA told me they were “investigating” if Bradley…
UPDATED WITH GUARDIAN REPLIES BELOW RE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/28/dont-discuss-iraq-war-william-hague?INTCMP=SRCH Dear Guardian editors Nick Hopkins wrote that the war “…led to the death of almost…
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