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Exposing the media’s attack dog formula against Venezuela
OLIVER VARGAS responds to an article by liberal hipsters Vice and its misrepresentation a recent Venezuela Solidarity Campaign event
CHAVISTAS: A huge crowd marches in support of Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2012 [Pic: Alex Lanz/Creative Commons]

SINCE the May elections in Venezuela and the overwhelming victory for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the slew of articles attacking Jeremy Corbyn and the Morning Star via Venezuela have died down somewhat. 

Hopefully the last of this tired genre seems to be a recent piece by Tommy Walters in the liberal-hipster outlet Vice.

In this particular piece, Walters takes aim at a recent event by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and the Morning Star’s election observer report, mostly interpreting what happened in a way I and other attendees wouldn't recognise.

People hold posters of their late president at his funeral in 2013. Pic: Pic: Luigino Bracci/Creative Commons
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