Re: [OPE] Venezuela is the most democratic country in Latin America

[SORRY IF I HAVE REPEATED THIS EMAIL. BUT I AM NOT RECEIVING WHAT I SEND]

According to you, then, if someone totally backs a murderer, he can and must be believed as a NEUTRAL instance when he judges the murdered... just because he rightly called the fact a murder!!

Diego

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Alejandro Agafonow
  To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list
  Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [OPE] Venezuela is the most democratic country in Latin America

  Diego G: **I ask you again: Why to "giv[e] to El Pais the benefit of the doubt" if it backed the coup against Chavez (in 2002) that put in power the president of the employers?**

  Because El País didn’t doubt to call that event a coup. Remember that in Venezuela the opposition that devised the coup plot denied that that were a coup. The strategy of the plotting opposition was that it was a *power vacuum*.

  In El País you can find, for example, information about the persecution of the supporters of Chavez after the coup http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/ONG/denuncian/abusos/redadas/colaboradores/presidente/depuesto/elpepiint/20020414elpepiint_3/Tes

  So, it does not really matter the personal OPINION of part of the editors, as far as the newspaper fulfills the difficult task of distinguishing between it and information. In addition, the fact that that opinion was not published under the heading EDITORIAL, leads me to think that not all the editors agreed on that opinion.

  A. Agafonow

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Received on Thu Mar 5 16:35:15 2009