Thursday, December 06, 2007

Our media was lying about the danger of 'Socialism' in Venezuela

Phoenix woman at firedoglake takes an non-Capitalist (and non Socialist) analysis of the modifications that Hugo Chavez wanted to the Venezuelan Constitution and explains what they were and what they were intended to achieve. The analysis is extremely unlike anything we have seen here in the U.S. media, but our media has been spouting the international oil company line.

You know the oil companies. Never give the natives an even break, and if they take it anyway, demonize them as Communists and Socialists.

I don't vouch for every element of this analysis (my Spanish isn't good enough to go to source documents - yet), but I'll guaranteed this analysis is more accurate than anything we have gotten from the American corporate media or from the Bush administration who immediately recognized the plotters of the 2002 Venezuelans coup when they tried (and failed) to replace Chavez.

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