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On 7/30/2017 10:00 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote:
Michael,
If you can find the time for an extended piece on the Venezuelan
situation that would be deeply appreciated. I was dismayed to note
that the radical/progressive Radio Station Novara Media out of London
is to arrange a debate on Venezuela - for and against. That to me
means that the counter revolutionary forces in Venezuela have been
very successful in their self presentation.
Gary,
Unfortunately, I'm not in a position these days to pursue this but
think that recent pieces by Steve Ellner (who is there) and George
Ciccariello-Maher (both available at the Socialist Project website) are
quite useful (as was Claudio Katz's commentary on the Left in Vzla,
available on Links. Certainly, the counter-revolutionary forces in the
country and outside have been quite successful in presenting their
narrative as the truth. Consider how the declared 7 million voters in
the opposition-organised consultation has been accepted as truth by the
capitalist media despite the absence of monitoring, the ability to vote
multiple times (as recorded on video), the questionable math in terms of
how many people could vote at the limited number of tables in the time
period--- and the inability to verify results given the rapid
destruction of the voting records; compare that to the dismissal of
yesterday's announcement of over 8 million votes in the election of
members of the Constituent Assembly-- despite the fact that this
election took place via electronic machines (where multiple voting was
prevented) and the official system provides a paper counterpart for each
vote. The opposition has cried fraud for every election carried out this
way and their narrative has been accepted unquestionably this time. The
answers to this internally are for the Venezuelan people to provide. But
a counter-narrative externally is for those of us who part company with
the capitalist media to provide, and venezuelanalysis is a good place to
start for information.
in solidarity,
michael
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