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San Cristobal on Tuesday night |
Dear International Editor:
What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.
And that’s just what came out in real time, over Twitter and YouTube,
before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has
been taken off the internet amid mounting repression, and this blog
itself has been the object of a Facebook “block” campaign.
What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.
Here at Caracas Chronicles we’re doing what it can to document the crisis, but there’s only so much one tiny, zero-budget blog can do.
After the major crackdown on the streets of large (and small)
Venezuelan cities last night, I expected some kind of response in the
major international news outlets this morning. I understand that with an even bigger and more photogenic freakout
ongoing in an even more strategically important country, we weren’t
going to be front-page-above-the-fold, but I’m staggered this morning to
wake up, scan the press and find…
Nothing.
As of 11 a.m. this morning, the New York Times World Section has…nothing.
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