MB Civic

Keane Bhatt at NACLA ..

[The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson] incorrectly claimed that “Venezuela leads Latin America in homicides” in his “The End of Chavez?” [] Actually, it is Honduras [with a US backed coup gov’t etc etc] .. Another Anderson article—“Slumlord: What has Hugo Chávez wrought in Venezuela?”—also misled the print magazine’s readers by giving the impression that Chávez’s presidential tenure was predicated on a coup d’etat rather than his victories in over a dozen internationally vetted elections .. One month ago—the day Chávez died—Anderson wrote a third piece, for NewYorker.com, claiming: “[Venezuala is] one of the world’s most [] socially unequal countries” .. the CIA’s World Factbook ranks the country 68th out of 136 countries with available data on income inequality—that is to say, Venezuela is exactly in the middle [and the US has higher inequality!!]

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