Voice-over on BBC segment on Venezuelan food shortages does not stand up to scrutiny of video footage shown The BBC and the UK’s other ‘mainstream’ media have been criticised by […]
Sky’s coverage of events in Venezuela has been poor and skewed – but it has been better than that of the BBC. At least Sky has given some coverage to […]
Donald Trump – or US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his behalf – has appointed Elliott Abrams as envoy to Venezuela, in a clear signal of the reality of […]
The attacks on the Venezuelan government and attempts by the US and other countries to legitimise self-appointed ‘interim president’ Juan Guaido have continued as US motivations have become explicit, with […]
At the weekend, the SKWAWKBOX published a clear-cut case of disinformation about the situation in Venezuela – and showed that in spite of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claim that the […]
The Maduro government is far from perfect, but Venezuela’s election systems are considered world-leading – when the country is not the target of Western regime-change plans and ‘economic war’ Foreign […]
A mass propaganda campaign has begun since the US announced that Trump was recognising right-winger Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela and was keeping open the option of military intervention. […]
At the beginning of August Smartmatic, the company that ran the recent Venezuelan election for its new Constituent Assembly, alleged that the vote had been conducted fraudulently. The allegation was […]
You know those times when you want to say something’s unbelievable – but it just isn’t? This is one of those. You can’t even say it’s ‘astonishing’, because astonishment means […]
On Thursday the SKWAWKBOX published a first-hand account of the situation in Venezuela that challenges the prevailing portrayal and exposes the ugly reality of much of the opposition ‘protest’ as […]