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March
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Misreporting Venezuela
Hugo
Chavez as Processed by The Independent
By TONI SOLO
Many people read the London based Independent
newspaper because among its reporters is the outstanding Robert
Fisk. The anti-war stance of the newspaper on Iraq and its stance
on genetically manipulated foods and other environmental issues
may give the impression that the Independent is a responsible
newspaper across the board. But a look at its coverage of Venezuela
reveals the same old story of distortion, omission and deceit
on US intervention in Latin America that one finds everywhere
else in the corporate media.
It may be worth pointing out that the
owner of the UK Independent is Tony O'Reilly, one of Ireland's
most prominent businessmen, formerly head of H.J. Heinz. H.J.
Heinz heiress Teresa Heinz is married to Democratic Presidential
candidate John Kerry. Also of note is that O'Reilly shares philanthropic
concerns through the Ireland Fund with fellow fund member Peter
Sutherland, former GATT and World Trade Organization chief, also
chairman of oil giant BP-Amoco.1 It's unlikely their corporate
philantropy extends to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president.
Three important stories on Venezuela
have appeared in the Independent during March.2 One by Phil Gunson
on March 2nd, one by Andrew Buncombe on March 13th and one by
Rupert Cornwell on March 20th. Phil Gunson's article is crude
anti-Chavez propaganda. Buncombe's is a straightforward account
of US funding for the Venezuelan opposition. Cornwell's is a
more insidious anti-Chavez piece employing classic BBC-style
bonhomie and "balance". Both pieces depend on ignoring
crucial facts.
Chavez rubbished among Gunson's garbage
The keynote in Gunson's piece comes in
the second paragraph: "Three months after the opposition
umbrella group, the Democratic Co-ordinator (CD), gathered more
than three million signatures for a referendum against the leftist
President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's electoral authority was poised
to reject the petition.
The only way to revive the referendum,
guaranteed under Mr Chavez's 1999 constitution, would be for
hundreds of thousands of signatories to reaffirm their intentions
- an option that seemed certain to be rejected by the CD as impractical."
Phil Gunson whimsically attributes to
himself the authority to judge the number of signatures collected.
He says nothing about the circumstances of the recall vote –
which no European country would have regarded as acceptable.
For example, voting lists were taken from the voting stations
by opposition party representatives so as to register votes by
going from house to house. The Chavez government accepted that
and other abnormal voting procedures, presumably so as to quit
the opposition of any excuse were they to lose the vote.
In the event the opposition failed to
collect the necessary 2.4 million clearly valid votes they needed.
They only got 1.8 million votes ratified by the national electoral
council. 600.000 votes were disqualified outright by the electoral
council as being obviously invalid. A further 800,000 thousand
votes are in question, mainly because many of the signature forms
presented as valid share identical handwriting. These questionable
votes are now to be made available in voting stations to allow
the people to whom the signatures were attributed a second chance
to confirm their vote. Contrary to Gunson's comment, the constitutional
procedure for the confirmation process is no more impractical
than the original recall vote itself.
Gunson's article then notes the widespread
violent protests by the US-funded Venezuelan opposition. The
impression he gives is of broad based popular opposition to an
oppressive unpopular regime. But he offers no support for any
of his assertions. This example of weasel-like sourcing; gives
the flavour: "Election observers from the Atlanta-based
Carter Centre and the Organisation of American States (OAS) were
preparing to leave, convinced - say diplomatic sources - that
the process has been manipulated by the electoral authority,
on whose board the government has a majority of three to two."
Gunson failed to get the answers he wanted
from the Carter Centre or from the OAS, so he resorted to unattributed
"diplomatic sources". What might count as "diplomatic
sources" for Phil Gunson is unclear - two US embassy staff?
Or one US embassy Information Service hack and a Colombian embassy
representative of death squad-friendly President Alvaro Uribe?
An impartial reader cannot tell.
Similarly, in the penultimate paragraph
Gunson refers to Chavez's "increasing authoritarianism"
with nothing to support this description of the Venezuelan President.
One just has to recall the savage repression of peaceful protest
in Miami around the FTAA meeting there last year to imagine what
measures might be taken against demonstrators throwing petrol
bombs and shooting civilians in the US. But in the alchemist's
transformation of dross into sensationalism worked by Phil Gunson,
security measures applied with minimum force in Venezuela against
murderous assaults by the anti-democratic opposition become "increasing
authoritarianism".
Gunson's report could be dismissed for
the pap that it is and forgotten were it not part of an international
media campaign to disparage and demonize Hugo Chavez and to intervene
in Venezuela's internal affairs. The campaign gives aid and comfort
to the anti-democratic US-funded opposition. The crisis in Venezuela
stems from the opposition's lack of electoral support. They tried
to rig the recall vote and became bogged down in constitutional
process. Then they instigated violent insurrection to try and
force the issue, so far without success. These basic facts are
entirely absent from Gunson's report.
Chavez re-historied
– the Buncombe version
Andrew Buncombe's article may well have
been an attempt by the Independent to make good Gunson's crude
bodge. Ostensibly, Buncombe highlights US funding for the Venezuelan
opposition through the CIA's ugly sister, the National Endowment
for Democracy. But his piece plays its part in the editorial
management of perceptions about Venezuela against President Chavez.
The final paragraph reads: "In recent days, Caracas and
other cities have been rocked by demonstrations in support of
the recall vote. Those intensified after the supposedly independent
elections council ruled that government opponents lacked enough
total signatures to force the vote. There have also been large
and vociferous marches by thousands of supporters of the president
who oppose the vote."
Note here the "supposedly independent
elections council". In fact, the electoral council was chosen
by the Venezuelan Supreme Court, not by the government nor by
the government controlled legislature. Would Buncombe dare to
describe the US Republican-packed Supremes as the "supposedly
independent Supreme Court"? Hardly. But it's good enough
when you're writing about Venezuela. And then the chimera "balance"
rears one of its many heads. Buncombe reports the anti-Chavez
demonstrations and the pro-government march as if they were somehow
equal manifestations of political opinion in the country.
In fact, the limited insurrectionist
outbreaks, directly encouraged and heavily hyped by the uncensored
Venezuelan media under Gunson's "increasingly authoritarian"
Chavez, were rejected even by the opposition's own middle class
supporters. (No one likes paid riff-raff burning tyres and shooting
people at the bottom of their smart driveways.) Whereas the pro-government
demonstration brought out half a million Chavez supporters –
a degree of magnitude far greater than the "thousands"
reported by Buncombe. So even in pieces that seem to offer a
respite from the unremitting demonization of Hugo Chavez, history
is retouched to serve mainstream media inventions about events
in Venezuela.
Chavez weighed in
the Cornwell Balance
Balance plays an enticingly plausible
role for the unwary in Rupert Cornwell's piece, which presents
information about current events in Venezuela through a profile
of President Chavez. The article is cleverly done, several degrees
more sophisticated than Phil Gunson's mediocre hatchet job. Anyone
unfamiliar with Venezuelan affairs would leave it thinking what
an agreeable fellow Cornwell must be and what an unstable jerk
those bewildering Venezuelans elected to be their President.
But the giveaway comes in the first paragraph.
Noting Washington's hemispheric concerns, Cornwell writes of
Fidel Castro "as far as can be judged, that particular tormentor
of the US is as firmly in the saddle as ever." So, even
taking into account the flippancy, which serves it's purpose
here by distracting the reader from the sense of what is being
said, the perspective is clear. It is Cuba's Castro who is the
aggressive tormentor. Never mind 40 years of US funded and organized
sabotage, economic blockade and terrorist attacks that have claimed
thousands of Cubans as well as foreign tourists among their victims.
It is poor old Washington and the United States that deserve
our sympathy.
The rest of the article flows naturally
and fluently from that perspective. Cornwell presents Venezuela
as a country in social crisis and "on the brink of civil
war". A coherent broadly based force capable of mounting
effective organized military action against the Venezuelan government
for now exists only in Cornwell's own prose although it almost
certainly figures in the planning of the State Department and
the CIA. Never mind, Cornwell goes on. Chavez "has divided
his country by class and race" - as if Venezuela's has not
been precisely the history of a country ruthlessly dominated
by a wealthy white elite who kept the poor non-white majority
in miserable poverty with corrupt, undemocratic politics and
brutal repression. In Cornwell's version it is wanton Chavez
who has divided the country.
Cornwell relates, "In 1992, as economic
crisis and social unrest gripped the country, he made his first
attempt to seize power..." This account leaves out the context
in which the Andres Perez government of the time, following riots
against disastrous IMF imposed reforms, oversaw the massacre
and disappearance of around 3000 people. Cornwell's "economic
crisis and social unrest" reinforces the racist stereotype
of unstable Latins who can't run their own countries. In fact
the 1992 uprising was a response to the endless interference
in Venezuela's internal affairs by the United States and its
dogsbodies, the IMF and the World Bank.
Another suave way Cornwell uses to undermine
Chavez is to make invidious comparisons with Salvador Allende
and Juan Peron, as if Chavez is already doomed to meet one or
other of their fates. Cornwell tends to sneer at Chavez's "narcissistic"
use of TV to reach his political consituency. But in fact Chavez
uses TV for his political purposes in a very similar way to the
Venezuelan opposition – both talk dramatically and
intimately to camera as if speaking directly to an audience at
a political meeting. Anyone who has not watched Venezuelan TV
would not know that. Meretriciously, Cornwell makes Chavez seem
a poseur.
Cornwell quotes Larry Binns of the Council
for Hemispheric Affairs in Washington. Binns complains that Chavez
is "far too dependent on the military." Ah, so we are
to conclude that Chavez must surely be a militarist despot....
or then again, maybe he just doesn't want to end up like Salvador
Allende. Allende died because he trusted the army. The army murdered
him. Chavez isn't making the same mistake. So, in Cornwell-speak
he must be described (this time by an attributed source because
Cornwell is a better journalist than Phil Gunson) as "far
too dependent on the military" at the same time as Chavez's
extrovert character is unfavourably contrasted against the more
sober demeanour of Allende.
The "Independent"
's incredible shrinking masses
Recounting the April 2002 coup, Cornwell
has the hundreds of thousands of Chavez supporters that defeated
the US managed putsch shrink– just as in Buncombe's
report - to mere "thousands". The effort in all these
pieces is to minimize the massive popular support enjoyed by
Chavez and to magnify the militant opposition – which
is in many ways a virtual creation of the corporate owned Venezuelan
media. US involvement in the 2002 coup becomes just some funding
and some verbal encouragement from White House officials Roger
Noriega and Otto Reich. In fact, US war ships entered Venezuelan
territorial waters. US military helicopters landed in at least
one Venezuelan airport. Venezuelan terrorists have been and probably
continue to be trained at camps in Florida to carry out terror
attacks against targets in their country 3All this information
is available and has been for some time. But it does not inform
the reports that appear in the Independent.
Also in Cornwell's account, Chavez "has
failed his country with his erratic and sometimes blundering
style, and his inability to deliver on promises." As if
the US inspired April 2002 coup never happened. As if the crippling
economic sabotage inflicted by the business classes and their
media allies never happened. As if the opposition controlled
Central Bank's mis-management of inflationary measures were benign.
As if the management strike in the country's nationalised petrol
company had no effect. But, of course, it is Chavez who has failed
his country, Chavez who has failed to deliver on his promises.
For Cornwell's narrative, it seems, the murderous and destructive
Venezuelan opposition are innocent children who fail to figure
as significant actors.
Non-existent bitter
battles
And now, Cornwell writes, "crisis
looms, as the president wages a bitter battle with the Venezuelan
Supreme Court to prevent a recall vote that could legally drive
him from office. If a vote were held today, almost certainly
that would happen." In fact, the Chavez administration has
repeatedly publicly declared that it will accept whatever verdict
the Supreme Court hands down. So where is this "bitter battle"?
If Cornwell is so sure that Chavez would
lose a new election why is it that the opposition had to resort
to systematic fraud in order to try and win the recall vote?
Why is it that only 1.8 million votes were ratified by the electoral
authority while a further 800,000 have had to be submitted for
confirmation because most of them appear in identical handwriting?
Oh, but of course, we are now back to Andrew Buncombe and the
"supposedly independent elections council"- a body
appointed by the Venezuelan Supreme Court with whom Cornwell
alleges President Chavez is engaged in a "bitter battle".
The editorial manipulation over the three articles is clear.
Gunson, Buncombe and Cornwell and their
editors operate from assumptions that implicitly support the
aggressive imperialist policies of the US while apparently maintaining
a certain distance or even, occasionally, expressing apparent
disapproval. But through consistent innuendo, distortion and
omission they misrepresent the Venezuelan government's efforts
to resist US intervention in the country's internal affairs.
Whatever may be the truth about Hugo Chavez the man is indeed
a matter of interpretation. On the other hand, no one seeking
factual coverage of events in Venezuela will find it in the Independent.
There is no need to resort to deep Chomskyian
analysis of what's going on in the media on Venezuela. Gunson,
Buncombe and Cornwell and every other journalist at work in the
international corporate media have the same access to the Internet
as anyone else. The fact that their reporting on Venezuela is
so abysmally prejudiced may well simply be because they are biased
and lazy. If Robert Fisk can deliver factual coverage on Iraq,
his Independent colleagues can well do it on Venezuela. They
don't.
Toni Solo
is an activist based in Central America. Contact: tonisolo01@yahoo.com.
NOTES
1. US oil giant Occidental Petroleum
has a deal with BP-Amoco on exploitation rights in land of the
U'wa people, and Catatumbo on the Venezuelan-Colombian border.
The area has been militarised and serves as a platform for Colombian
army and paramilitary provocations against Venezuela. "Plan
Colombia: Throwing Gasoline on a Fire", Hector Mondragon,
2000 Translated by Jens Nielson and Justin Podur, August 2001
2. "Venezuelans use people power
to attack Chavez", Phil Gunson, Independent, 2nd March 2004
"US revealed to be secretly funding opponents of Chavez",
Andrew Buncombe, 13th March 2004 "Hugo Chavez: Champion
of the poor, or just another despot?", Rupert Cornwell,
Independent, 20th March 2004
3. "Waiting for a response to U.S.-based
terrorists'' Dozthor Zurlent, Yellow Times, October 13, 2003
" Chavez Accuses CIA as Bombings Rock Venezuela", Agence
France-Presse, 11 October 2003. Both Otto Reich and the US ambassador
to Venezuela Charles Shapiro are vetera
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