Reply #79: I think it's a shame you are allowed to continue posting the same lies,

[Judi Lynn]

YEAR IN, YEAR OUT. Fortunately for the survival of the truth, there will possibly be at least one other DU'er around who knows the truth, has known it, and who will take the time to follow up on your remarks, one way or another, if time allows.

I presume you are always shooting for that one time none of us are around and your lies will stand. It's a damned pity if that happens, and some person wanders into D.U. who has been in a coma for the last 5 years and has no awareness of this subject.

I think you know those of us who have done our homework will not let that happen if we have any time available to set the issue straight.

From a post I just added at #77, or so, from an article written 4 months after the coup:

How Hate Media Incited The Coup Against President Chávez

Venezuela’s press power

Never in Latin American history has the media been so directly involved in a political coup. Venezuela’s ’hate media’ controls 95% of the airwaves and has a near-monopoly over newsprint, and it played a major part in the failed attempt to overthrow the president, Hugo Chávez, in April. Although tensions in the country could easily spill into civil war, the media is still directly encouraging dissident elements to overthrow the democratically elected president - if necessary by force.

by Maurice Lemoine

08/11/02 "Le Monde diplomatique" -- We had a deadly weapon: the media. And now that I have the opportunity, let me congratulate you." In Caracas, on 11 April 2002, just a few hours before the temporary overthrow of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, Vice-Admiral Victor Ramírez Pérez congratulated journalist Ibéyiste Pacheco live on Venevision television. Twenty minutes earlier, when Pacheco had begun to interview a group of rebel officers, she could not resist admitting, conspiratorially, that she had long had a special relationship with them.

At the same time, in a live interview from Madrid, another journalist, Patricia Poleo, also seemed well informed about the likely future development of "spontaneous events". She announced on the Spanish channel TVE: "I believe the next president is going to be Pedro Carmona." Chávez, holed up in the presidential palace, was still refusing to step down.
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