Thread by @venanalysis

This might sound like a broken record, but @Reuters reporting is really beyond disgraceful. This is a piece about efforts to reestablish diplomatic/trade relations between Colombia and Venezuela. It was the Colombian Senate which took the initiative
news.trust.org/item/202110202…

The beginning gives away that we're in for a bias bonanza: "After two years of mudslinging and ruptured ties, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said it was necessary to repair diplomatic relations with Colombia." "Mudslinging"? Not hiding efforts to thrash Maduro from the off

Then we read that VP Delcy Rodríguez demanded attention to "what she called the Col gov's policy of xenophobia and violence against Vzlan migrants." No mention that this comes after the gruesome killing of 2 Vzlan minors in Colombia. Context shall not get in the way of dishonesty

Colombian president and porky pig impersonator Duque gets the floor to, well, sling mud. As a US puppet he's not to be challenged
"What Colombia is not going to do is recognize a disgraceful, corrupt, drug trafficker dictatorship," Duque said

We wouldn't even know where to begin

First of all, whether Duque likes it or not, he does "recognize" the Maduro govt, because the only border crossing that self-proclaimed @jguaido controls is his building's intercom. "Disgraceful" is rich from a country where on average a social activist is killed every other day

But the most ludicrous part is "drug trafficking". We're talking about the continent's largest drug producer, and it's not close. And even US agencies know the drugs flow north via the Pacific and Central America. It takes real will to serve US interests to let this nonsense fly

And it gets worse (see image). "Aiding the Vzlan opp bring in humanitarian aid" meaning Maduro is the bitter dictator who rejected aid. Only there was hardly any "aid" in what was a stunt to provoke a break in the Vzlan army. Count on stenographers to continue peddling these lies

How big of an imperialist cheerleader do you have to be to use "self-proclaimed" w/o it being in reference to Guaidó? Also the US puppet who has said things freely gets to call Maduro a "dictator," while the demonized humanitarian-aid-hating Maduro only gets a counter-accusation

Colombia's role in coup efforts has been well established, but corporate journos want readers to ignore them w/ the tried and tested "Maduro says" trick. To name just a few
- May 2020 mercenary invasion
- Aug 2018 drone assassination attempt
- May 2004 100+ paramilitaries caught

Anyway, this is the kind of imperialist propaganda that has become the norm. The US-led coup efforts have failed miserably but the corporate media has more than done its part, endorsing everything from mercenary invasions to murderous sanctions. Follow VA to get your antibodies