Why Won't Maduro Let US Humanitarian Aid Into Venezuela? History.
Why Won’t Maduro Let US Humanitarian Aid Into Venezuela? History.
by Ted Snider Posted on March 05, 2019
The mainstream media is full of images and stories of Venezuela’s inhumanely authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro pushing American offerings of humanitarian aid away from Venezuela’s border with Columbia.
The mainstream media serves us up our offerings of news as if each headline story was an isolated event, floating alone on an ahistorical sea, unmoored from the events that came before it. Severed from its causes and context, the event can be created for the public in an original, but misleading, way. Restoring the history can clarify the story and prevent its misappropriation.
In the current case of U.S. aid to Venezuela, the restoration of the picture requires at least four pieces of history being painted back into the picture.
The Bridge: Pictures Don’t Lie. People Do.
The story of Maduro’s neglect of his people and his rejection of American aid begins on the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge that connects Venezuela to Columbia.
US officials and the mainstream media cried the same complaint in unison. America had tried to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Venezuela, and their illegitimate ruler had blocked the bridge and kept it out. But the cry and the photos of the bridge had been manipulatively severed from history. Maduro didn’t block the bridge because it was already blocked, and he couldn’t close the bridge because it had never been opened. Most of the barriers have been there for years because, after the bridge was built in 2015, it has never been opened.
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Democrats and other progressives, keep looking for the truth. It's harder to see buried under the mountains of truculent lies designed to influence the natural idiots among us to hate whoever the current target of our right-wing death machine. You just have to search for it. The easy "information" concerning the Americas is usually dumped out through manufactured baloney handed to the corporate "news" media. Eventually you'll spot the bogus ones on first reading.
