Thread by @venanalysis

🧵Whenever we read a corporate media piece about Venezuela, the 1st instinct is to go crazy at all the disingenuous reporting and biased narratives. Not great for your health. But after we’ve gathered ourselves, it’s useful to break down the propaganda. Bear w/ us here! (thread)

The piece we’re tackling this time around is from the bourgeoisie mouthpiece that is Bloomberg (@business). It comes on the heels of supremely dishonest contenders from the @guardian and @Reuters (links at the end of the thread)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Look at this headline! FFS! Venezuela doesn’t have “two presidents,” it has never had “two presidents”! It has one president (Maduro), who won a *presidential election*. And then there was this moron @jguaido who, on US orders, *proclaimed himself* “interim president”

We ought to underline this entire introductory paragraph… First off, notice how for Bloomberg going to Davos and being invited by Trump to the State of the Union somehow legitimizes someone as “president.” Politicians should stop running in elections and secure those invitations

But it gets worse. You’ll forgive us, but we’re not ready to proclaim an opposition politician as “president” because he organized large (not “giant”) opposition rallies in opposition strongholds. Also Maduro didn’t need to “douse” anything, it fizzled out within weeks

Again, there was nothing that could even remotely be described as a “stalemate.” Maduro just kept running his government, paying public sector wages, commanding the armed forces, etc. And this buffoon ran around playing “pretend president” w/ the US and loyal acolytes

The only thing that’s “bizarre” here is the disgusting corporate media coverage. “Fraud” allegations never need any evidence, and Washington declaring a puppet as president, w/ all its acolytes going along, is deemed normal by these loyal stenographers

Guaidó only had “60% support” in DC (or according to unreliable pro-opp pollsters). His “large crowds” never moved an inch out of the middle-class opposition strongholds, while Chavista marches also became a regular feature. Of course the media establishment will not report it

Count on the media to misrepresent Guaidó’s coup failure as “soldiers rebuffed calls to defect.” The cheap Obama lookalike tried an outright military putsch and even contracted mercenaries, only w/ troglodytical skills and underestimating the anti-imperialism of the Vzlan people

This piece by VA’s Ricardo Vaz for @FAIRmediawatch goes over all the disingenuous coverage of the Guaidó circus:
venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15685

Wouldn’t be a description of the Venezuelan economy w/o a terrible misrepresentation of sanctions. These measures were levied on all economic sectors, not just oil. And they weren’t just on “oil exports”, they went from banning imports to secondary sanctions on intl companies

For a better understanding of US sanctions, their deadly consequences, and how the media establishment has gone out of its way to endorse them, watch the following video:
venezuelanalysis.com/video/15519

We don’t really care if US surrogates get accurately depicted in the media or not but this is hilarious. The main opposition forces ousted Guaidó b/c he became a disastrous embarrassment, and the corporate media thinks it gets to decide who represents the “pro-democracy movement”

Normalizing mobster antics. Corporate journos don’t see anything wrong w/ the US using frozen, sorely needed funds to blackmail the Venezuelan govt into talking to its puppets. Nor do they see anything wrong w/ threats of more sanctions that kill 1000s of civilians #SanctionsKill

As promised, here’s a thread on that most liberal of rags, the @guardian

And here is the one on the most reliable source of anti-Venezuela propaganda, @Reuters

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