Maduro takes his case to a New York Times column: "a call for peace"

Maduro takes his case to a New York Times column: “a call for peace”

Thursday, April 3rd 2014 - 07:03 UTC

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Venezuela: A Call for Peace - By Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela - The recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events. Read full article

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Captain Poppy
NY Times......a nice, large liberal paper but nowhere near what you are Maduro. However........sell it somewhere else because it will not fly here. Drive your bus off a short pier.
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
Listen, Nicky boy, you're going to have to do a lot better than that. Can you make that intellectual leap that says paying for votes and threatening voters is not democracy? Why is it that your immediate response to any problem is to describe it as a “plot” and call out the troops? A while ago, we had anarchist riots across London. But no troops. Tell you what bothers me. You don't talk like a bus driver. You talk like a commie recruitment leaflet. And you're frightened, aren't you? Your reason to write an article for the NY Times is what? You need to talk to the people of Venezuela, not the people of New York!
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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screenname
The New York Times was his second choice: because of his hatred of Spiderman, he actually wanted to be published in the Daily Bugle...DOH!!!
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
He should have posted it with his kind in Pravda
Apr 03rd, 2014 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
The comment thread under this op-ed piece in the NYT is most illuminating with about 90-95% of posters calling him out.

It certainly wasn't written by him. I have seen him on Venezuelan tv many times, he can barely speak Spanish. He only was educated up to sixth grade....

I don't have time to refute him on every point, but I could! A couple of quick hits tho.
Venezuela has had free health care and free education for many, many decades.
The Chavistas didn't bring it in. Now there are no books, computers, medicines nor medical kit.

Awful lot of Cuban 'medical advisors' though. ...
Apr 04th, 2014 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Gordo1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/10746775/Caracas-chaos-Venezuelan-general-on-the-run.html
Apr 06th, 2014 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
“A call for peace”

Changed his tune for the USA audience. In February this year he threatened to bomb and/or invade the State of Tachira.
He said this on national TV.
Evidence here
http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/04/01/maduro-threatens-to-bomb-an-entire-state/

'nuff said...
Apr 06th, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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