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	<title>South of the Border</title>
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	<description>a film by Oliver Stone</description>
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		<title>12/10 UN Human Rights Day &#8211; Attend a &#8220;South of the Border&#8221; Screening Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Action:  12/10 UN Human Rights Day &#8211; Attend a &#8220;South of the Border&#8221; Screening Party In major US media, evidence of US involvement in coups in Latin America doesn&#8217;t exist. Major US media almost never acknowledge evidence of the US role in recent coups in Venezuela, Haiti, and Honduras. But Oliver Stone&#8217;s documentary &#8220;South of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kirchner Rescued Argentina’s Economy, Helped Unite South America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of Argentina&#8217;s former president is a sad loss. His bold defiance of the IMF paved the way for South America&#8217;s progress By Mark Weisbrot Published by The Guardian Unlimited (UK) on October 27, 2010. The sudden death of Néstor Kirchner today is a great loss not only to Argentina but to the region [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Venezuelan Economy: Media Sources Get It Wrong, Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bulk of the media often gets pulled along for the ride when the United States government has a serious political and public relations campaign around foreign policy. But almost nowhere is it so monolithic as with Venezuela. Even in the run-up to the Iraq War, there were a significant number of reporters and editorial writers who didn’t buy the official story. But on Venezuela the media is more like a jury that has twelve people but only one brain.]]></description>
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		<title>Murder by Numbers: Do Media Reports of Violent Crime, Poverty, and Inequality in Venezuela Add Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reported yesterday on “a campaign from opposition media to highlight the [Venezuelan] government's failure to tackle violent crime” ahead of next month’s legislative elections. Such media campaigns, ahead of Venezuelan elections, are hardly surprising – nor is it unusual that the campaign has been picked up by international media, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page, Voice of America, the Vancouver Sun, public radio, and other outlets. These news reports and opinion pieces repeat the same theme: that violent crime in Venezuela is out of control, which the government of “Hugo Chávez can't or won't stop,” as an op-ed in the Miami Herald today puts it.]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuelan “Campaign from Opposition Media” Taken Up by U.S. Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Reuters article today on Venezuela’s upcoming legislative elections describes “a campaign from opposition media to highlight the [Venezuelan] government's failure to tackle violent crime.” But it is not only Venezuelan media that have joined the campaign. In the past few days a flurry of news articles in the international press have laid out the same theme: that violent crime in Venezuela is out of control, that there were more murders last year in Venezuela than civilians killed in Iraq, and that the Venezuelan government either cannot or will not do anything to staunch the bloodshed.]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian Op-Ed: &#8220;Oliver Stone&#8217;s new film, South of the Border &#8230;allows six of these new wave leaders to speak for themselves&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excellent op-ed  by The Guardian's Seumas Milne sums up the changes underway in South America, citing "South of the Border": "Both the scale of the transformation and the misrepresentation of what is taking place in the western media are driven home in Oliver Stone's new film, South of the Border, which allows six of these new wave leaders to speak for themselves. Most striking is their mutual support and common commitment – from Cristina Kirchner of Argentina to the more leftist Evo Morales – to take back ownership of their continent."]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Opinion Articles: Corrected and Uncorrected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FAIR notes  that the New York Times has corrected an error made in a recent opinion piece. It’s actually not the first time that the Times has corrected an op-ed. In August 2006, the Times ran a correction – after repeated requests - to a November 2005 column by John Tierney that had cited out-of-date in suggesting that poverty had increased in Venezuela when, in fact, it was declining, as available data demonstrated. ]]></description>
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		<title>Guerrillas Armed With Beer, Part II: This Time It&#8217;s Audio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting followed up their recent blog post on the Washington Post’s far-reaching editorial comments on Colombia-Venezuela tensions with a Counterspin interview  that delved deeper into the issue. Host Steve Rendall asked Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy, about major media coverage of the situation.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post Suggests Venezuelan Government Somehow Responsible For Rise in Killings of Pro-Chávez Trade Unionists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik takes issue with a recent Washington Post article that reported that Venezuela could be the world's most dangerous country for trade unionists. Correspondent Juan Forero makes the suggestion in stating that “Though Colombia, with its slow-burning conflict, has historically recorded the most union slayings in the world, Venezuela appears to have surpassed its neighbor in the past two years and registered more.” ]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian’s Distorted Depiction of Venezuela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK's The Guardian is currently prominently featuring a report from last year on “The rise and rule of” Hugo Chávez. The slideshow – almost a sort of mini-documentary – is done by South America correspondent Rory Carroll, and it provides a good example of the kinds of distortions and one-sided, de-contextualized information on South America that have appeared in many Guardian news reports over the past several years. ]]></description>
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