http://www.alternet.org/world/washington-tries-regime-change...
The lesson that this reinforces is that we can not rely on the media for the news. If ever we could.
Not so much by the left winger sources. Those are too busy attacking Israel than bother with the millions of deaths, rapes etc in Sudan/Congo...
(I usually get the motivation: "You should have higher standards for democracies." Then I ask: "How many thousand times different standards is reasonable without being a hypocrite?" Never got that answered.. :-) )
(But lots of people will be certain that all of that comes from more conspiracies from the US. :-) )
Most oil countries are badly run; and whatever you think of Hugo Chavez and his party, Venezuela was already at least halfway into the ground before they came along, tbqfh.
And then there are the large social problems? A command economy that kills local business might be common, but the size must be worse in Venezuela? Etc.
To close the opposition media and using the TV is quite standard in places like that. But as much as in Venezuela?
(Libya and possibly Iraq has problems from violence and Iran has sanctions. They are a bit special cases.)
Also, as I understand it, things like this is especially common in South/Latin America with much populist aristocratic history.
Send an email to the admins, since it doesn't seem you should be.
(This is my own new account since I was hellbanned and don't have energy enough to send email. I got angry at an idealist idiot that might not have been a spammer/troll.)