Thread by @robvato

MUST SEE TO BELIEVE VENEZUELATHREAD: Textbook inversion turning the violent into the the victim. Venezuelan opposition leader @LORENT_SALEH surrounded by Mexican politicians as he chides the @lopezobrador_ govt for refusing to support Trump coupattempt iin bit.ly/2GsYDH2

Venezuela. Saleh denounces the Mexican govt for not opposing a Venezuelan govt he says "uses violence to control & submit the (Venezuelan) population." This sounds reasonable enough for global media to cover, until you see this clip of Saleh plotting bit.ly/2nKTFe2

sniper attacks, bombings, assassinations & other paramilitary things deserving the "terrorist" label. This press conference & the reporting that will follow reflect how the corporate media fails to investigate who Saleh & other extremists in the Venezuelan opposition are,

preferring to uncritically prop them up in narratives that turn them and Trump into peace- loving, "humanitarian" David's trying to slay the failed socialist Goliath. Never mind that the prestigious Colombian newness org, @elespectador, reported that @LORENT_SALEH attended a mtg

of Colombian neonazis. He's backed by the US'guy @AlvaroUribeVel
, arguably the bloodiest tyrant in the recent Latin American history. Coverage of the Venezuelan opposition provides a textbook exmpl of how to turn violent, pathological hawks into doves. bit.ly/1pyVGAP

Here's @LORENT_SALEH laughing re an action he was planning:"tenemos dos pastas de C4, grandes" ("we have two blocks of C4, gig ones) Ther is a logical & ever-so-slight possibility he was talking re two blocks of C4 nonprofit humanitarian advocacy/lobbying

organizations that the Venezuelan opposition has set-up with the help of high-end PR/lobbying firms like @highlantern. Problem is the context and other vids have him talking about sniper attacks, bombings and other acts of what would be called "terrorist" activities were he not

mentioned in @wikileaks as a favored opposition leader formerly associated with JAVU, a youth organization whose leaders told me they were trained by OTPOR. OTPOR is a very shady training & destabilization outfit out of Serbia that the US has funded to provide $$$erious training.

And here's Saleh "conversing about human rights" with Nobel Peace Prize Winner and reliable US ally, Oscar Arias.

https://twitter.com/oariascr/status/1090660720361029633