By MARC WEISBROT - March 19-21, 2010

Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media...It involves many public officials, especially in the U.S. The goal will be to generate as much bad press as possible about Venezuela, to discredit the government, and to de-legitimize the September elections...

By Eva Golinger - February 15th 2010

In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it "democracy promotion" was born...Through the creation of a series of quasi-private "foundations"...Washington began to filter funding and strategic aid to political parties and groups abroad that promoted the US agenda in nations with insubordinate governments.

By Ted Snider - February 18, 2010

We are used to viewing current events through the lens of the North American media. But how must current events look through the perspective of Hugo Chavez, born in Latin America in the same year the CIA conducted its first Latin American coup...Chavez is the current inheritor of South America’s mantel of democratic nationalism. His predecessors have all come to the same end at the hands of the Americans. So should Chavez be afraid about the recent U.S. military migration into next door Columbia? From his perspective he should.

By Yves Engler - February 18, 2010

The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela...But it's not because Harper is of the "ultra right" as suggested. In fact, both Liberal and Conservative governments have tacitly supported the U.S. campaign to replace the government of Venezuela.

By Ramzy Baroud - January 23, 2010

Western media is...rife with all sorts of unfounded accusations, baseless speculations and superfluous insinuations. They evoke in the reader and viewer a dread and fear, based in this case on the doomsday scenario whereby fanatical Latin Americans and radical Muslims gang up on America, and ultimately Israel.

There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela (also featuring a video interview with co-author Carlos Martinez).

By Eva Gollinger - January 06, 2010

A high-level [U.S. Agency for International Development] official confirmed two weeks ago that the CIA uses USAID's name to issue contracts and funding to third parties in order to provide cover for clandestine operations...Development Alternatives, Inc. is one of the largest U.S. government contractors in the world. The company...presently has a $50 million contract with USAID for operations in Afghanistan. In Latin America, [it] has operations and field offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

More Chavez bashing.

By Robin Nieto - October 13th 2004

...[O]n what used to be celebrated in Venezuela as the day of the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, a group of young men and women tore down the statue of the 15th Century explorer during this national holiday that was renamed the Day of Indigenous Resistance...The statue was located in downtown Caracas atop a 30 foot high pedestal. Protestors used thick yellow climbing ropes to bring down the 100 year old statue of Columbus and dragged the remains through downtown Caracas...

By Eric Wingerter - September 12, 2009

...[T]he confluence of interests between the [Anti-Defamation League] and right-wing U.S. politicians has become a marriage of convenience. The ADL and other groups often use charges of anti-Semitism as a form of subterfuge designed to sully the image of governments and intellectuals who criticize the policies of the Israeli government. Meanwhile, right-wing U.S. politicians can use the anti-Semitism claims as a means of attacking the left more generally.

Monday, September 21, 2009 - Al Jazeera

Jimmy Carter, a former US president, has said that Washington knew about an abortive coup against Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, in 2002, and that it may even have taken part...Carter said it was understandable that Chavez continues to blame the US for the failed attempt to overthrow him.

By Eva Gollinger - September 14, 2009

In the midst of an international campaign launched against President Chávez, carried out by the extreme Right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organized and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the USA in order to denounce the Venezuelan government and to strengthen the links between young US Republicans and the Venezuelan Right.