Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America
The US administration and corporate media have resorted to the most extreme lying about Latin America that has been seen since the Reagan administration wars of the 1980s.
Mark Cook
In Campaign Against Venezuela, NYT Cites Former Member of Death Squad Alliance
In its nonstop campaign against the government of Venezuela, the New York Times is now forced to lean on the thin reed of Paraguay’s ultra-rightist government, which took power in elections widely characterized by fraud, as even the Timesnoted when they occurred.
Rerun in Honduras
The pretext for the Honduran coup d’état is nothing new. In a remarkable replay, bogus charges that the corporate media in the U.S. and Europe have repeated endlessly without attempting to substantiate—that Honduran president Manuel Zelaya sought to amend the country’s constitution to run for another term—are virtually identical to the sham justification for the […]
Fraudulent Reporting
The August 21 Mexican elections, which the U.S. media have characterized as “generally fair and clean” (New York Times, 9/27/94) despite widespread protests to the contrary, have presented establishment media in the U.S. with a serious problem: how to make people believe that a ruling party, which could only win elections through massive fraud in […]
How Television Sold the Panama Invasion
Two weeks after the Panama invasion, CBS News sponsored a public opinion poll in Panama that found the residents in rapture over what had happened. Even 80 percent of those whose homes had been blown up or their relatives killed by U.S. forces said it was worth it. Their enthusiasm did not stop with […]
