What CNN Doesn't Want You to Know About Venezuela's Elections
What CNN Doesn't Want You to Know About Venezuela's Elections
By: Eva Golinger
Published 5 December 2015
What CNN did was outright censorship.
Republished with permission from Venezuela Analysis.
On Monday of this week, November 30, I received a phone call from a CNN en Español producer asking me to write a column on the upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela, scheduled for this Sunday, December 6. Pleasantly surprised at the opportunity to publish in a media outlet widely known for its biased anti-government coverage of Venezuela, I accepted the offer.
Over the next day and a half, between work and personal responsibilities, I found barely enough to write the article. In fact, I first wrote one piece that was heavy on the politics, and subsequently decided it wasn’t appropriate, or effective, for the CNN audience. The most critical issue to discuss with an audience already biased against the government in Venezuela was not why government policies or good or bad, or who will win at the ballot box, but rather the integrity of Venezuela’s voting system.
The article was only a page and a half, under 800 words. The majority was dedicated to outlining the process of voting in Venezuela, which I have gone through numerous times as a Venezuelan citizen. I opened the article citing Jimmy Carter’s famous phrase on the Venezuelan electoral system, which he referred to in 2012 as “the best in the world”, after observing over 90 elections worldwide.
Towards the end of the article, I made a brief mention of poverty reduction under the administration of President Hugo Chavez, and also referred to errors pollsters have made in Venezuela over the years during tense elections. After sending in the article, a few hours later CNN asked me for sources on poverty reduction under Chavez, and cites for the polls. I easily obliged with their request and provided credible, accessible citations.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/What-CNN-Doesnt-Want-You-To-Know-About-Venezuelas-Elections-20151205-0010.html
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That mouthpiece for the Maduro govt?
Yeah, she's a real unbiased source.
system; Caldera also helped break the back of this monopoly by empty parties
http://www.amazon.com/The-Magical-State-Modernity-Venezuela/dp/0226116026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Caldera
it's the same dynamic as with the PRI, actually--that a weak and anti-ideological party can't actually provide the development and ever-rising quality-of-life indexes it promised for decades (especially during any oil contraction, or when the bankers get government money to back everyone's deposits, then flee with the money in their private jets and Caldera gets double-billed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracazo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
it's in fact the failure of this promise that if the Third World dams every river, soaks the land in pesticide, gets rid of those pesky forests, and doubles its population that it'd "catch up" to Europe by, oh, say, 1965; in oil states like Venezuela the "black gold" didn't ultimately mean financial independence or appliances and medicines raining down from the heavens onto the jungle; it's the ultimate failure of this developmentalist fantasy that gave us the cartels, surging population, fundies running Washington, leveled forests, 9-11, ISIS, global warming, AND its denialism
for around seven decades we'd been thinking that we're gods and we might as well get good at it