ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF NEW YORK TIMES' FAKE NEWS ABOUT VENEZUELA

It’s not so much that they lie outright, but that doesn’t make their statements any less deceptive. Today’s article “Venezuela, Once and Oil Giant, Reaches the End of an Era” says the following: 

“Soon after he was elected president in 1998, Mr. Chávez commandeered the country’s respected state oil company for his radical development program. He fired nearly 20,000 oil professionals, nationalized foreign-owned oil assets and allowed allies to plunder the oil revenues.” 

The authors, who are based in Venezuela, know full well that the firing of those professionals had nothing to do with Chávez’s “radical development program.” It’s because they participated in a two months oil shutdown for the purpose of overthrowing the government. The same would have happened to oil employees in any country in the world. Didn’t Reagan fire over 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981 for having done much less?