Does the news media, and us, no longer give a damn about Venezuela?

[Archae]

I posted a link to a news story about the US naming the VP of Venezuela as a drug trafficker.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141700711

I found no other news about this other than the CNN ink, and nobody here replied.

Is news from South America at all being covered?

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Today's news is not a a Trump Daily Outrage

My eyes are here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-spy-ship-patrolling-off-u-s-east-coast/

And anything done by this Administration can/must be undone.

He's not legit and none of his advisors or cabinet members are.

[Turbineguy]

2. Well you must admit,

there are plenty of Extremely Shiny Objects to distract us!

[spanone]

3. this was brought up at spicer's news conference. in fact, he led with the story.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Yes, and many of us here were watching as Spicer and Mnuchin announced the news

Archae might take a look at some of the many presser threads here.

[GaYellowDawg]

4. Well -

If a dump truck backed up to your lawn, and dumped a couple of tons of a great big steaming pile of pig shit on your front lawn (i.e., Trump), you'd worry about what happened down the block a little later.

[mwooldri]

6. US media got their hands full...

BBC has this as their lead story on the Latin America section.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38964575

But then any time I type "news" into my web browser it autofills with .bbc.co.uk - I've trained it well lol

[jmg257]

7. Good - screw him...Butnote how this ties in with other things going in...like EOs...

A confidential intelligence document obtained by CNN links El Aissami to 173 Venezuelan passports and ID's that it says were issued to individuals from the Middle East, including people connected to the terrorist group Hezbollah.

The official who ordered the issuing of the passports, the report said, is El Aissami, who "took charge of issuing, granting visas and nationalizing citizens from different countries, especially Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Iranians and Iraqis."
El Aissami has not responded to multiple requests for comment over several months. CNN reached out to the Venezuelan government Monday night but there was no immediate response.