Weisbrot on Venezuela

Thanks to Russ T. for the link.  

U.S. media distortions of political reality in Latin America are even more annoying to me than those elsewhere because they concern people and places that are far less alien than, say, the people and places of the Mideast and Central Asia--not to mention the Russian Federation.  

Even the reporting in the NYT (?) shows a flair for uncanny inaccuracy when it comes to Latin American and particularly Venezuela--(such things have never happened before, of course)  

Any way here's  a on-the-scene account of the situation in Venezuela by Marc Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Progress, a progressive think tank whose relative objectivity is such that its facts and figures often are considered reliable even by its enemies on the Right:  

The Truth About Venezuela: A Revolt of the Well-off, Not a 'Terror Campaign'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38027.htm

U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America seems to be a habit inherited by each succeeding presidential administration, rather than something thought out by...well, anybody in particular...

R. 

 

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