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September 2003
Venezuelan news media dissected
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2003
by Antonia Zerbisias
http://www.thestar.com/
A confession: For 18 months now, I have been collecting clippings about the political turmoil in Venezuela. But I have been remiss in not writing about it or, more specifically, the media crimes being committed there.
Venezuela is where President Hugo Chavez, a charismatic former paratrooper, not white and not a member of the traditional ruling class, has been fending off what appears to be a regime change that is, if not instigated by the United States, certainly aided and abetted by it. I'd like to say last week's news was filled with stories of how the United States is backing a recall vote to oust Chavez - whom the media love to describe as "anti-democratic'' and "a dictator" - except that most media are not only distorting this story, they're ignoring it.
The thing is, Chavez is nothing like Saddam Hussein - although, it must be said, Chavez did visit the Iraqi leader. It's also true that Chavez is soft on Cuba's Fidel Castro. But, while Chavez did go to prison for trying to overthrow the government in 1992, he has since been democratically elected president, not once but twice: first in a landslide in 1998 and again in 2000, with a solid majority.
And yet the Bush administration, has been working, directly or otherwise, to bring the Chavez government down because, well, because ...
Did I happen to mention oil?
Depending on your source, Venezuela, which supplies 12 per cent of the crude that goes to the U.S., is the world's third-largest (says the CIA), fourth-largest (Associated Press) or fifth-largest (Wall Street Journal) exporter of oil. Naturally, it's of intense interest to the oil-obsessed Bushies.
That's why former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer has spouted such trash as, "President Chavez has had a rule that has been controversial and has not met with widespread popular support within Venezuela ..." or why Secretary of State Colin Powell has questioned Chavez's "understanding of what a democratic system is about."
The poor of Venezuela, the vast majority of the population, love Chavez because he is bringing them not only democracy, but also a chance to access the country's vast natural wealth. For example, as last Sunday's Star revealed, Chavez's land reform laws, which are redistributing 2 million hectares of idle, state-owned property to poor families, are upsetting the wealthy élite who, as in many Latin American states, have long exploited the campesinos. And so they are exercising their economic might to bring Chavez down.
Well, they don't say information is power for nothing. Venezuela's wealthy anti-Chavez class owns the five largest television stations and nine of the 10 major national newspapers. And time and time again in the last few years, particularly in April, 2002, when Chavez's opposition staged a coup against him and again last winter when there was a 64-day oil strike and business lockout, the private media have gone on the attack, in ways that make the U.S. feeding frenzy on the Bill Clinton thong-gate look like a Victorian ladies' tea.
Over and over, they have incited the overthrow of this democratically elected government and viciously manipulated images to make it look bad.
You think that the toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad was used as propaganda? You should see how Venezuela's private networks made it look as if Chavez supporters were shooting unarmed government protestors. It's there in the stunning documentary Chavez: Inside The Coup, on CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye tonight at 10. The film has won all kinds of international awards, including the top prizes at this year's Banff and Monte Carlo TV festivals, plus scored a standing ovation at this month's Toronto film fest.
The thing about the Venezuelan media is, they often feed the international media. Never do they tell you that the infant mortality rate under Chavez has plummeted or that school enrolment has soared. It's all doom and gloom, linked to the "leftist" Chavez. Just last week for instance, Reuters relied on "local television'' images to report how Chavez forces were terrorizing oil company workers. But having seen Inside The Coup's dissection of the Venezuelan media, I had to discount the story.
Which is not good, either for journalism, democracy or the people of Venezuela. As Naomi Klein noted in The Nation, Venezuela "isn't the only country where a war is being waged over oil, where media owners have become inseparable for the forces clamouring for `regime change' and where the opposition finds itself routinely erased by the nightly news."
I expect that my Venezuela regime change clipping file is going to get mighty fat - and fast.
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Washington Pursues Dangerous Policy in Venezuela by Mark Weisbrot
In recent weeks U.S. officials have made a series of remarkably unfriendly statements against the government of Venezuela, and its President Hugo Chavez. This breach of diplomatic norms can only serve to worsen relations between the two countries. It also provokes resentment in Latin America -- in the same way that the Bush administration's decision to disregard the United Nations and invade Iraq lowered our standing throughout the world.
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Washington Pursues Dangerous Policy in Venezuela
Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2003
by Mark Weisbrot
In recent weeks U.S. officials have made a series of remarkably unfriendly statements against the government of Venezuela, and its President Hugo Chavez. This breach of diplomatic norms can only serve to worsen relations between the two countries. It also provokes resentment in Latin America -- in the same way that the Bush administration's decision to disregard the United Nations and invade Iraq lowered our standing throughout the world.
"I think that some of the things that he [Chavez] has done at home politically and his policies on the economic side, has ruined what is a relatively wealthy country," said Roger Noriega, the State department's top diplomat for the Americas. This statement is ironic, since Venezuela's current recession is mainly a result of the 64-day oil strike organized in December and January by opposition leaders seeking to overthrow the government. The State Department did not criticize this strike nor ask its friends in the opposition to desist from it, even though the Bush administration was preparing for war in the Middle East and had a strong interest in maintaining the flow of oil from Venezuela, the world's fifth largest oil exporter.
U.S. officials have also made a number of statements indicating support for a referendum to recall President Chavez. This is in sharp contrast to the Bush administration's position on the California referendum. When Republicans were gathering signatures to recall Governor Gray Davis, the Bush team remained studiously neutral.
In addition, U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Charles Shapiro violated diplomatic protocol by meeting with the country's newly appointed electoral commission last week , even before the commission had met with the government. He offered "assistance" with the commission's work, including their first task of deciding whether to accept the opposition's recall petition. The petition was subsequently rejected unanimously by the commission, with even the opposition members abstaining.
Administration officials have also made statements, without offering any evidence, indicating that the Chavez government is supporting the guerillas in neighboring Colombia. And in July our government cut off U.S. Export-Import Bank credits to Venezuela.
Chavez has responded angrily to these statements and actions, telling our government "not to meddle" in Venezuela's internal affairs. Noriega, in turn, accused Chavez of "unrelenting hostility" to the United States.
But how would the Bush Administration react if the president of France, for example, were to call for the impeachment of President Bush? Clearly it is Washington's hostility to Venezuela that is causing the problem.
In fact, the Bush Administration openly supported the military coup against President Chavez in April 2002, reversing its stance after it became clear that the United States was diplomatically isolated.
Our government's clear pro-opposition bias, as well as its lack of respect for democracy and national sovereignty in Venezuela, prevents it from playing any positive role in resolving political conflicts there. Nor is such intervention necessary.
Venezuela is a democracy, with complete freedom of the press, speech, assembly and association. In spite of Washington's support for the military coup last year, the Chavez government has done its best to maintain friendly relations with the United States. It is our third largest trading partner in Latin America, and has always -- except during the opposition's oil strike -- been a reliable energy supplier.
The Bush Administration's policies are destabilizing Venezuela, politically and economically. This is wrong and dangerous, and has the potential to push the country towards civil war. There needs to be more pressure on the Bush team here in the United States to change course, before it creates another foreign policy disaster.
Mark Weisbrot is co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, DC (www.cepr.net).
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Published on Thursday September 25, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
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Venezuela may be forced to apply "diplomatic restrictions" on oil supplies to the United States of America By: VHeadline.com Reporters
Reports from Dominican Republic say that authorities in Santo Domingo say they don't have a clue of the whereabouts of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez (CAP), wanted on an extradition warrant to face charges of corruption in Venezuela additional to his conviction a decade ago of multi-$ million corruption related to a secret government slush fund.
The news comes in the wake of the Venezuelan government's decision to suspend vital oil supplies to the Dominican Republic over its refusal to deal with ex-President Perez who has been using his luxury residence there as a base for further conspiracies against the government of his arch-enemy President Hugo Chavez Frias. It was a coup attempt by Chavez Frias in February 1992 that was the beginning of the end for CAP, who was impeached and kicked out of office the following year. He was convicted and served out a sentence under house arrest at his mansion in a southern suburb of Caracas. Full Article
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CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias
Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2003
Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York September 20, 2003 By: Roy S. Carson, www.vheadline.com
Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President Hugo Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York (to deliver a speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by security services who say they have "overwhelming evidence" of a CIA-backed plan to "bring down" the Chavez Frias' airplane during the scheduled flight to the United States from Caracas. Sources in Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) have told VHeadline.com that "presented with overwhelming evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential flight, it was decided that the President's personal security was preeminent and that he should not go!"
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Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2003
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Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2003
Venezuelan reform: 41,000 families get land
CARACAS (IPS/GIN) - The Venezuelan government has distributed a million hectares of land to 41,000 families in seven months as part of a reform program whose five-year goal is to settle 500,000 families on 10 million hectares. President Hugo Chavez recently visited the farming town of Cubiro in west-central Venezuela, where another 212,911 hectares were distributed to 10,263 families, and $3.5 million in loans were made available to small farmers. In addition, 19 tractors were delivered to 62 agricultural cooperatives. The settling of more than 10,000 families on small farms around Cubiro marked the start of the second phase of the government’s reform program, during which 63,400 families are to receive a total of one million hectares. But the government’s efforts have run up against staunch opposition from agribusiness and large landholders, and the rural workers’ struggle for land has been plagued by violence. A number of land activists have been killed by hired gunmen.
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