Venezuela's Oil: Wellspring of Bad Blood. A vanguard of white-collar rebels have vowed to remain true to a national strike that has paralyzed oil exports from the world's fifth-largest supplier. By Juan Forero. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
In this article, as in several others, The New York Times insists that military personel have taken over striking tankers. That is a partial truth. There are several striking tankers, most of them have not been taken over, the few where it has been attempted have not moved and remain where they where. This is a failure for the government, they won't admit it, but responsible journalism should point it out.
They still are trying to portrait this fight as White vs. Black, Rich vs. Poor, that is also bullshit. Most venezuelans are mixed race and, as normally happens in mixed raced countries, families have a variety of colors. So, some of my sisters, who are rabidly anti-Chávez, have darker skin than most of Chávez supporters, much darker than Chávez himself, while the pro-chávez parlament officials, accused yesterday of having millions of dollars in accounts in the US, are as light skinned as any opposition supporter. The lack of serious journalism in a newspaper like The New York Times is really depressing.
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