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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:42 PM Apr 2016

President Correa Denounces Deceit of Venezuelan Opposition

President Correa Denounces Deceit of Venezuelan Opposition

Imagen activaQuito, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, denounced the use of deception by the opposition to the government of Venezuela to try to seize power in that country.
In his account on the social network Twitter, the president recalled a phrase of the Liberator Simon Bolivar: 'They will not dominate us by force but by deception' and copied a link to an article replicated by several media on an iconic photo of shortages in Venezuela.

It turns out that the picture was not taken in the South American country, as it was made believed, but in New York, United States, and deceived the most popular search engines on the Internet, Google.

The snapshot was made in 2011 by a photographer from the Reuters agency when Hurricane Irene was expected in U.S. and desperate people emptied the supermarkets to stockpile food and water.


The Spanish newspaper El Mundo showed on digital networks manipulation orchestrated by anonymous users, bloggers and political parties of the Venezuelan opposition who decided to systematically use this image to denounce the economic problems the Bolivarian Republic is facing.

More:
http://www.plenglish.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4773701&Itemid=1

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President Correa Denounces Deceit of Venezuelan Opposition (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP
It's ceratinly the model 2naSalit Apr 2016 #1
Thanks for linking this article. It's really good. n/t Judi Lynn Apr 2016 #2
Here is a photo from Venezuela Bacchus4.0 Apr 2016 #3

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)
1. It's ceratinly the model
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:52 PM
Apr 2016

in use around the world, like here and maybe Greece and some other places...

here's more on that (published last year but totally worth the read to see the pattern which you might recognize in our own Congress, their overlords and supporters-

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/venezuela-elections-hugo-chavez-maduro/

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