Re: "For more on the situation in Venezuela, we go to the BBC's Orla Guerin." Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on January 30, 2019, 6:16 pm, in reply to ""For more on the situation in Venezuela, we go to the BBC's Orla Guerin.""
I saw Orla Guerin's report and "interview" with Juan Guaido (or Bat Guano as RhG has christened him) which showed "secret" filming of empty shelves in supermarkets, an interview with a young black mother who can't afford to feed her children and to ease their hunger pains sends them to bed with water and sugar which is all she can afford; all this overlaid with a doom-laden commentary about how the country, though rich in oil, is desperately poor and has vast slums etc etc. All of it true, of course -- but not one word of explanation as to how this state of affairs came about, the long history of the US's aggressive policies of isolation and embargoes, or of how millions have been rescued from abject poverty by Chavez and his successor. So much for Guerin's on-the-spot analysis of the situation. Not a squeak of real reporting to be found. This woman should hang her head in shame at this disgraceful performance, though she will feel no shame, working for the BBC. If she didn't believe what she believes, she wouldn't be standing where she's standing, to paraphrase a 90-year old.
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