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Dec 26, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
We found @Reuters' favorite trick. After the "once-prosperous country" come the "once-booming oil capital" and the "once-flourishing western oil state of Zulia." We'd call Reuters a once-respectable media outlet but who are we kidding really?

reuters.com/business/energ…
So the story is how a migration flux of some 5,000 Venezuelan migrants a month across the Mexico-US border is "emptying" the major city of Maracaibo (1.7 million people) and the oil-producing state of Zulia (almost 5 million people).

You really can't make this s*** up!
Surely Reuters must have done some major research to back up this absurd claim. You better sit down for this: journalist Mariela Nava talked to eight families! Oh and then there's an anti-government NGO saying there are "neighborhood areas with few people left." Case closed!
Later on there's more fun w/ numbers. Some other useful source says there's a net 1400 people a week crossing into Colombia. Even assuming they're all from Maracaibo it would take 11 years to "empty" half the city. Never mind journalism standards, Reuters needs a calculator
Unmissable of course is a dishonest depiction of sanctions. "Critics say" mismanagement is also to blame, and the oil industry collapse is just due "in part" to murderous US sanctions. Yes,being hit by a truck aggravated the patient's life, he was already suffering from migraines
To set the record straight, there has been indeed a huge migration in recent years as the crisis takes its toll. UN estimates are 5-6M, though many Venezuelan sources argue figures are lower. It is a serious issue. But to claim a major Venezuelan city is being "emptied" is a joke
Also completely dishonest is to claim there's an issue w/ Venezuelan migration into the US. 50,000 people a year is next to nothing, both in terms of US-Mexico border traffic and Vzlan migration in general. But that racist, anti-immigrant dog whistle is not going to blow itself
And for an honest look at the slew of unilateral sanctions levied against the Venezuelan oil industry, as well as their impact, check out the following infographic: venezuelanalysis.com/images/15301

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🧵When it comes to reporting about Venezuela, there is no corporate outlet even remotely close to the level of dishonesty of the New York Times. Seriously, it's one piece of misrepresented bullsh*t after another. Follow this thread as we break it down Image
This is the piece:

The article is not to be taken seriously b/c it starts from a blatant lie. US "prodding" has nothing to do with Venezuela holding elections. It is dictated by the Constitution that they be held this year and they were never in doubt shorturl.at/LFusR
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Anyone not high on Western exceptionalism would actually be ashamed of their government meddling in other countries' affairs. But alas, this is the NYT.

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🧵🧵The border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana has flared up recently, leading to a war of words, increased military deployment and increasing signs of US intervention. We have prepared an infographic to explain the history and context of the controversy (thread) Image
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Sep 12, 2023
About time... Spain's @el_pais reports that the $3 billion in frozen Vzlan assets will soon be released. This was agreed to between the Venezuelan govt and opposition last November! But this thread is to point out the dishonest b.s. from the Spanish establishment's mouthpiece 🧵 Image
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It essentially relies on anonymous sources who say that the funds will soon be released. El País then covers this fairly straightforward report in a cloak of lies and misconceptionsenglish.elpais.com/international/…
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🧵🧵Worse than a broken clock... Even when it wants to state the obvious, in this case that sanctions are a terrible and wrong policy, the @nytimes remains fully draped in US exceptionalism. The corporate media are an active front of the US empire (thread) Image
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The US-backed Venezuelan opposition, which runs an imaginary parliament, wants a US court to declare a Venezuelan bond as invalid to try and soften the disaster brought by their complete bundling when in charge of CITGO

reuters.com/markets/commod…
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