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“Chavez makes life easy for US media”
Published: 10 September, 2009, 11:10
Edited: 06 January, 2010, 02:48
TAGS: South America, Obama, Bush, Politics, Chavez, Mass media, USA
Hugo Chavez is a colorful and bombastic character, who makes life easy for the US media. But it hasn’t covered the social and economic discontent which led to the rise Chavez, said Nikolas Kozloff, Latin America expert.
Nikolas Kozloff, the author of “Revolution: South America and the Rise of the New Left” said:
“The US public doesn’t really have a fundamental understanding of what’s going on with the left in South America”.
“US media tends to focus on what Hugo Chavez said at the General Assembly of the United Nations. For example, Chavez first came to US attention when he went to the UN and he insulted George Bush,” he said.
“I think what’s lacking in the coverage is any kind of context,” he went on. “US media never asked itself what would prompt Hugo Chavez to even insult the leader of the United States.”
“Hugo Chavez had a legitimate reason to be concerned about US foreign policy. Unfortunately, the American public is not always informed about the machinations of US imperialism or the shenanigans of the State Department,” Kozloff said.
10.09.2009, 03:06
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Sorry to knock down the rating of the article, folks, but the it was so brief and superficial that it said nothing about this dynamic South American dictator/hero/astute politician (choose one, depending on your news media bias or class). I find him a delight to follow in depth from news sources that write that way.
JG, what are you talking about? The Columbian goverment is one of the most corrupts goverments on the planet, democracy does not exist in Columbia the currrent administration is lead by the mafia (Álvaro Uribe Velez number 82 on a list of 104 important people linked to the cocaine trade in Colombia) and based on trafficking of drugs, opposition almost does not exist in Columbia, not because its citizens like the goverment, it is just because anyone who dares to speak up or critizise its president or the govervent is automatically branded as a terrorist then tortured and put in jail for years. In Columbia exist many criminal and terrorist organizations many of them have been trained by Israel country that also supply weapons to kill civilians in Columbia.
How nice it will be when some day it will be possible to generate energy easy enough from new sources and forget about the oil. Than we will see more freedom and less of these kind of individuals living big mouthed on the back of those who work with their hands and brains, and have to pay hard cash for that slick fossilized by pure coincidence under their estates. How they will crumble back to nothing. My dream! The motor running on water or something like that will be the nightmare of these guys.