(2019) Debunking Corporate Media Lies on Going There

I spent several weeks in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2019, at a time when the US was attempting to create chaos in the country (by sabotaging the electricity grid), and Western media was reporting there was chaos. There wasn′t chaos, I saw Venezuelans helping one another during the period of power outages. I also saw tremendous displays of support for their government, including up in the hills of one of the largest, poorest, barrios. March 2019, when most Western corporate owned media were insisting most stores in Caracas were empty-shelved. At the time, I walked around Caracas noting how most of the shops actually had full shelves. But for skeptics, that wasn’t good enough. So, I went with a friend on his motorcycle to Petare, which is generally dubbed the “largest slum in Latin America“, in other words a very poor area, where if there were empty shelves you’d think it would be there. We first went to a central hub, filled with food shops, and then up into the hills where in smaller barrios we still kept seeing tables of produce for sale, signs for chicken, cheese, and stalls with full shelves. This is not to say there is not poverty (thank you Western sanctions and economic war on Venezuela), but to highlight that what the media were screaming was patently false. They were painting scenes of chaos that didn’t exist. Recall that this was around the time the West was pushing the lie that Guaido was “interim president“, which he was/is not. Related: “We’re not starving. This is a fight against a people that are trying to be free.“ @EvaKareneBartlett:9/we-re-not-starving-this-is-a-fight:3 US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ’needed’ intervention Venezuela isn’t Syria… but America’s war tactics are the same Yesterday in Petare, largest barrio in Latin America (& one of poorest in Caracas), I saw not-starving ppl purchasing similar vegs, plus meats, walking like normal ppl, not like a “crisis“. Media is lying about a humanitarian crisis. Same media that doesn’t care about Yemen. I spent most of afternoon in Petare, one of poorest areas of Caracas & the most sprawling series of barrios in Latin America. Ppl I met there spoke about Imperialist & economic war against them, & how they will continue defending their country.