Posted on 02/19/2014 5:33:34 PM PST by logi_cal869
With the eyes of the world on the brutal crackdown on dissent in Venezuela, the regime of Nicolas Maduro decided to try to take a few of those eyes out of action. CNN reporter Karl Penhaul found himself staring down the barrel of a nickel-plated pistol, as plainclothes police confiscated his crew’s camera and transmission equipment. That forced him and his crew to find someplace else as a reporting center, taking them out of the center of the conflict:
(video at link)
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I define Schadenfreude as when the lapdog media are, as ever, the first ones marched up to the wall.
I call that a “ beginning”.
I suspect that much of the US media is vested in suppressing information such as this. It will be hard to get accurate reports and even harder to get them widely broadcasted in the major US media IMO.
True that.
Venezuelan beauty queen Genesis Carmona, 22, fatally shot in head during protest
Genesis Carmona, who served as her state’s 2013 Miss Turismo, was shot in the head in the city of Valencia Tuesday. The 22-year-old died Wednesday afternoon, marking the fifth fatality during the country’s ongoing political turmoil.
By Nina Golgowski / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, February 19, 2014,
Obama keeps silent while his comrade Maduro resorts to brutal force to hold in power.
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