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    Re: Saker offers a judicious, realistic prospect for Venezuela, and "Uncle Shmuel's" chances there (bad, Archived Message

    Posted by dovetailjoint on February 1, 2019, 8:59 am, in reply to "Saker offers a judicious, realistic prospect for Venezuela, and "Uncle Shmuel's" chances there (bad,"

    This morning I listened twice to an interview on the BBC World Service, the world's radio station, to an interview with an ex-officer in the Venzuelan military. He didn't have a name.

    He said that the army leadership had been bought by the regime and everyone else was living in fear for their lives. Twenty years of sickness, death and murder under the yoke. We don't want to be like Cuba, waiting fifty or sixty years. That's why we need help from some other people to gain our freedom. We can't do it on our own. The democratic system doesn't work anymore in Venezuela.

    Are you advocating military intervention from abroad? he was asked.

    Yes, I am. We've suffered too much already.

    Wouldn't the government call you a 'counter-revolutionary'?

    I love my country with all my soul and being!

    Now, this is part of a series of interviews the BBC has broadcast recently. I was wondering about the ethics of broadcasting an interview where a person advocates the toppling of a democratically elected government by a foreign power through an aggressive military attack, a war, that surely must be brazenly illegal under international law? Is the BBC supposed to give airtime to individuals calling for illegal wars and all without subjecting them to critical questions?

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