It's so hard to get real news about the Americas that hasn't been wildly framed by official US sources I try hard to save the links to every source I've found when I can manage it.
I need to find sources outside ordinary US media, although some domestic sources do retain enough elements of truth it's possible to see some of the story, even if it's between the lines!
I'll bet you've noticed how US sources, and wire sources like Reuters and AP almost ALWAYS use any story about a leftist led country to work in material attacking the President, relentlessly, to the point it sounds as if they simply copy and past the propaganda part in every time.
An example could be a story which might say that some progressive step forward was made in one of the countries but the opposition says it sucks, and the President should be shot in the streets as soon as possible, that even the poor can't stand him/her, and why doesn't he/she drop dead!
So they use the "news" event as the opening in order to spew the completely negative crappola regarding the leftist leaders.
It gets amusing once you've seen it long enough. You really know to look for it.
I feel a need to find more honorable, trustworthy information if I possibly can. I'm not close to giving up! I need to find out for myself, making up for lost time, lost to my own ignorance from the days I trusted our home-grown "news" sources, and I feel I should make that info. available to anyone who wants to read it.
You are truly very kind, jwirr. So glad we're all watching Latin America events together.
So much happening there happens because of US pressure of one kind or another, and US covert machinations we never know about until after it has been declassified and released to authors, etc. through the Freedom of Information Act, years and years later.
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