Campagne mensongère des medias contre Chavez

Publié par Elsie HAAS sur 31 Août 2007, 09:56am

Chavez et l'écrivainne mexicaine, Helena Poniatowska

En Haïti, la presse dominante ( Le Matin, Le Nouvelliste, RK par exemple) suit ce mouvement occidental de dénigrement de Chavez. De même les éléments de la classe moyenne, qui jaquottent le même refrain : "Chavez est"anti-démocrate..'' Si la flagornerie était un virus mortel il n'existerait pratiquement plus de classe moyenne en Haït- Mais hélas ça ne l'est pas ! Cette classe moyenne haïtienne (en admettant qu'elle existe) il faudrait l' envoyer par charters entiers faire des stages au Venezuela pour qu'elle apprenne ce que sait que la démocratie participative qui n'a rien à voir avec la démocratie "plein les poches" qui se pratique en Haïti.
John Pilger dans son article pour le journal britannique " The Guardian" fait un parallèle entre la campagne de désinformation qui a aidé à détruire Allende et les Sandinistes du Nicaragua. Campagne de désinformation qui a été financée, à l'époque par la CIA dans ces deux pays. Parallèle inquiétant parce qu'on a vu que la répression des mouvements populaires au Chili et au Nicaragua s'est soldée par des milliers de morts et le muselage pour longtemps des forces progressistes. Pour l'auteur la virulence des attaques contre Chavez montre bien qu'il se passe quelque chose d'important au Venezuela ce qui est réel :"Thousands of poor Venezuelans are seeing a doctor for the first time in their lives, having their children immunised and drinking clean water. New universities have opened their doors to the poor, breaking the privilege of competitive institutions effectively controlled by a “middle class” in a country where there is no middle. In barrio La Línea, Beatrice Balazo told me her children were the first generation of the poor to attend a full day’s school. “I have seen their confidence blossom like flowers,” she said. En gros : "Des milliers de pauvres voient des médecins pour la première fois, peuvent faire vacciner leurs enfants et boient de l'eau potable. De nouvelles universités se sont ouvertes, brisant ainsi le privilège des institutions controlées par "la classe moyenne" dans un pays où il n'y a pas de milieu. Dans le quartier de La Linea, Beatrice Balazo m'a raconté que ses enfants étaiebt la première génération de pauvres à pouvoir passer toute une journée à l'école. " J'ai vu leur confiance fleurir comme des fleurs" me dit-elle.
Venezuela
14) The old Iran-Contra death squad gang is desperate to discredit Chavez
Democracy and hope in Latin America have been revived by Venezuela’s leader. But the forces allied against him are formidable
John Pilger, The Guardian, Friday August 17, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2150655,00.html
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The disinformation that helped destroy Allende and give rise to Pinochet’s horrors worked the same in Nicaragua, where the Sandinistas had the temerity to implement modest, popular reforms. In both countries, the CIA funded the leading opposition media, although they need not have bothered. In Nicaragua, the fake martyrdom of La Prensa became a cause for North America’s leading liberal journalists, who seriously debated whether a poverty-stricken country of 3 million peasants posed a “threat” to the United States. Ronald Reagan agreed and declared a state of emergency to combat the monster at the gates. In Britain, whose Thatcher government “absolutely endorsed” US policy, the standard censorship by omission applied. In examining 500 articles that dealt with Nicaragua in the early 1980s, the historian Mark Curtis found an almost universal suppression of the achievements of the Sandinista government - “remarkable by any standards” - in favour of the falsehood of “the threat of a communist takeover”.

The similarities in the campaign against the phenomenal rise of popular democratic movements today are striking. Aimed principally at Venezuela, especially Chávez, the virulence of the attacks suggests that something exciting is taking place; and it is. Thousands of poor Venezuelans are seeing a doctor for the first time in their lives, having their children immunised and drinking clean water. New universities have opened their doors to the poor, breaking the privilege of competitive institutions effectively controlled by a “middle class” in a country where there is no middle. In barrio La Línea, Beatrice Balazo told me her children were the first generation of the poor to attend a full day’s school. “I have seen their confidence blossom like flowers,” she said. One night in barrio La Vega, in a bare room beneath a single lightbulb, I watched Mavis Mendez, aged 94, learn to write her own name for the first time.

More than 25,000 communal councils have been set up in parallel to the old, corrupt local bureaucracies. Many are spectacles of raw grassroots democracy. Spokespeople are elected, yet all decisions, ideas and spending have to be approved by a community assembly. In towns long controlled by oligarchs and their servile media, this explosion of popular power has begun to change lives in the way Beatrice described.