www.newsbusters.org
FLASHBACK: NY Times Moronically Blamed ‘Brutal Capitalism’ for Venezuela’s Demise
Normal people are breathing a sigh of relief that narco-terrorist leader Nicolás Maduro is finally getting his just desserts for getting fat off of the torture of his citizens and funneling drugs into the U.S. for years. For MRC Business, it’s a moment worth recalling when the idiotas at The New York Times made their readers dumber by blaming anything but communism and socialism for Venezuela’s destruction.
The July 28, 2024, story that Times Venezuela reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev, international correspondent Frances Robles and Andes Bureau Chief Julie Turkewitz ran was so bad it was enough to make people lose IQ points:
[I]n recent years, the socialist model has given way to brutal capitalism, economists say, with a small state-connected minority controlling much of the nation’s wealth.
Yes, the journos actually attempted to make Maduro and Venezuela’s bread lines synonymous with — *checks notes* — “capitalism.”
How the heck three Times authors, including a bureau chief, didn’t sense the irony in blaming “capitalism” while kvetching about a “state-connected minority” as if the two terms are anything other than mutually exclusive boggles the mind. The MRC pointed out then that the authors should have taken the time to read one of their paper’s own prominent columnists, Bret Stephens, and his 2019 piece headlined, “Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe.” For Pete’s sake! It’s not even as if the authors needed to read any text outside their own paper to realize that their hot take was dumber than a bag of hammers.
Even the radical Communist Party of Great Britain praised Maduro in a 2016 piece headlined, “ Maduro ‘ready to radicalise the revolution.’” The piece ended with the chant:
Viva Chávez! Viva Maduro! Viva Venezuela! Viva la revolución Bolivariana!
Earth to the Old Gray Lady!
Independent Institute Senior Fellow Phillip Magness blasted The Times at the time for continuing “a long line of left-wing apologia around the repressive Chavez and Maduro regimes that have ruled Venezuela for a quarter century.” There’s even a 2021 video of Maduro extolling Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s infamous Communist Manifesto as “the most important political declaration in 200 years.” The Times authors pretended like this didn’t exist in their agitprop.
“Brutal capitalism?” Ha! Don’t make us laugh.
But what more can be expected from The Times, which has a long, sad history of covering up for oppressive communist regimes, such as the Stalinist kleptocracy under notorious Moscow Bureau Chief Walter Duranty’s insidious propaganda.
Apparently the ghost of Duranty still haunts the editorial rooms at The Times. After nearly 100 years since Duranty’s butchering of truth to gaslight the world over the harrowing realities of the Holodomor genocide inflicted by Stalin on the Ukrainian people, The Times’s most recent behavior in covering up Venzuela’s oppression by communism is further proof why no one should ever take the paper’s coverage seriously ever again.
New Posts (Home)
ChatBox
Popular Posts 
Game Zone
Top PodCasts
