News Coverage and Venezuela…
Venezuela is our 3rd largest oil supplier. I do not claim to be in the know politically, but given the recent events in the Arab world shouldn’t we be sending someone over there to help…or at least be covering this in the media?!?
I for one would love to see coverage that even closely rivals european news…freedom of speech has translated into freedom of whatever CNN wants us to know.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez resigned Friday under pressure from Venezuela’s military following street violence in which National Guard troops and pro-Chavez gunmen clashed with 150,000 opposition protesters. At least 13 people were killed and as many as 110 wounded in the fighting.
Chavez handed his resignation to three generals at the presidential palace, army Col. Julio Cesar Anzola said. A motorcade left the palace minutes after Anzola’s announcement, apparently headed for Caracas’ La Carlota military base. Hundreds of Chavez opponents gathered at the base.
The developments stunned a nation that had seen one of the biggest civilian demonstrations against the 47-year-old Chavez’s three-year rule. It came only three days after Chavez, a fiery populist and former army paratrooper who led a failed 1992 coup, had vowed to crush a general strike organized by Venezuela’s largest business and labor groups.
Hi I’m forest gump….and that’s all I have to say about that.