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The following photo essay is put up as an antidote to this week's reporting from Venezuela of Associated Press correspondent Elizabeth Nuñez for her errors of fact which, if taken as accurate and viewed from an international perspective, appear to suggest that the opposition to sitting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is only of modest intensity. Nuñez has erroneously reported on the strength of support for Chavez's opponent Manuel Rosales, who will face the Venezuelan President in a December 3 election, specifically for her drastic understating of the attendance of Rosales supporters at Sunday's "Caracas Avalanche" rally. Ms. Nuñez has...

Blogger Alek Boyd keeps a close eye on Venezuela's pro-Chavez propaganda groups actively operating in the U.S. He asks questions about their many claims and does his research. Today he's got a scoop on one of them, the loathesome Eva Golinger group called 'Venezuela Solidarity Committee' which, along with her 'VenezuelaFOIA' cooks up information about the CIA just doing its job into hysterical claims about its omnipotence. Naturally, the Associated Press and New York Times buy into this tabloid-quality tripe, but most responsible news organizations, including even Reuters, steer clear of this crew. Alek has learned that Eva Golinger's Venezuela...

Aleksander Boyd, who publishes the blog Vcrisis from London, has proven to us to be a relaible source of news on the Castroite Chavez regime of Venezuela. Most recently, he scooped the world press in reporting on a nonsensical raid on a Jewish school in Caracas. Another blog, Vheadline.com, which seems to take a pro-Chavez perspective, has taken to attacking Aleks mercilessly. It is now calling him "socially racist" and a "terrorist" in addition to a "traitor." Aleks is a brave and honest patriot, resisting a thuggish left wing regime, as far as we can tell. We wish him well....