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provide facts and reasonable analysis to contest this intensely propagandistic, so-called 'news' article, the Rightwing Chorus will likely soon be here, not to reply with facts and reasonable analysis, but to accuse me of worshiping "Saint Chavez" in their one-liner hit posts.
For instance, here's one fact that the Associated Pukes does not tell us in this article, will NEVER tell us in their anti-Chavez hit pieces and do not want us to know: That legislators granting presidents decree powers is very common in Latin America. For instance, Lula da Silva in Brazil used decree powers to protect a wide swath of the Amazon rainforest for an uncontacted Indigenous hunter-gatherer tribe. Facts like that are inconvenient when what you want is yet another anti-Chavez headline, to add to the cumulative effect of all your other hit pieces, that is, to numb peoples' brains with the "Big Lie" technique of repeating the lie over and over and over again.
And here ii is, once again, right in the article: "Government opponents accuse Chavez of growing increasingly authoritarian..." They have been saying this from Day One! It was not true then; it is not true now. Chavez has done NOTHING that was not within in his rightful powers, and NOTHING that was not part of his mandate from the Venezuelan people. Nothing! He has broken no law. He has not even bent any laws. So where does "increasingly authoritarian" come from? It comes from a script written in Langley, that's where. It is a STALINIST 'BIG LIE' decided upon when the Venezuelan people defeated the U.S.-supported coup d'etat in 2002. Paint him as a "dictator."
The rightwing press did the same thing to FDR. They called him a "dictator." That's what they do to independent leaders who act in the interests of their people and not in the interests of "organized money" (as FDR put it). The only difference is that our press corps now is entirely rightwing and highly controlled by our multinational corporate/war profiteer rulers. They will "hit" anybody who doesn't do their bidding--by coups (the corporate press in Venezuela was actively involved in the 2002 coup attempt), by relentless, monomaniacal propaganda campaigns, by promulgating CIA psyops and "dirty tricks," and by supporting outright war, if and when the "powers' here decide to wage it.
The Chavez government's policies, with repeated mandates from the Venezuelan people, may be wrong or partly wrong or ineffective, or they may be right or partly right or very effective (and on issues such as poverty reduction they have been very effective, indeed)--but that is NOT the way that our corpo-fascist press, or its controllers, want the matter to be "framed." They don't want reasonable discussion, fact weighed against fact, with the goal being the common good. They want to freeze peoples' mental powers with the meme "dictator"--a phantom bogeyman critter who doesn't exist.
That's what articles like this--including EVERY article about Venezuela in the corpo-fascist press over the last decade--are all about. EVERY article. Not ONE exception. And that's why the rightwing chorus here uses the one-liner tactic against reasonable discussion of accusing those who try to promote reasonable discussion of worshiping "Saint Chavez!" They DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW, and the Associated Pukes and brethren DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW, of Chavez's lawfulness or of ANY of the Chavez government's successes. They want you to think "dictator." They want you to think "Stalin," when they are, in fact, the Stalin's. They really are. They are using the 'Big Lie' technique on Hugo Chavez, and, by implication, on the people of Venezuela, who are thus, by implication, painted as stupid peasants who don't know what's good for them.
Notice how this Associated Pukes hit piece works in the word "stooges" to describe the members of Venezuela's National Assembly, whom Venezuelans also voted for, in honest, transparent elections (which the rightwing opposition, on bad advice from the Bush Junta, boycotted, last time out). "Stooges" who "rubber-stamp" a "dictator." No quotes. No attribution. And no running that opinion by anybody in the Chavez government or the National Assembly for a response.
This is disgusting journalism--and those who pander to it, and promulgate it here, are equally disgusting.
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