Western media - apolgists for an illegal imperial undertaking

This is the summary of the attempted coup from the Guardian.

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What is clear is that western reporters are not even reporting from on the ground - but are sitting in neighbouring Colombia and relying on Twitter feeds - which makes them about as informed as I am sitting in New Zealand.

It’s been a busy day in Venezuela following an attempted military uprising in Caracas. The opposition leader Juan Guaidó urged supporters to take to the streets to force his rival Nicolás Maduro from power.

Here’s where things are at now:

• Despite images showing some military members in support of Guaidó, Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro said he had spoken with military leaders that showed “total loyalty.” Maduro had not been seen in public as of Tuesday afternoon and its unclear where he is located at the moment.
• Guaidó, meanwhile, addressed crowds in different parts of Caracas, rallying citizens to take to the streets. “Today it is clear to us that the Armed Forces are with the people and not with the dictator,” Guaidó told a crowd in Altamira.
• There were reports of gunfire, teargas and water cannon use at demonstrations. And live broadcasts of a protest near La Carolta air base in Caracas showed armored military vehicles driving into crowds of protestors. It’s not clear yet how many people were injured or if anyone was killed.
• Throughout the day, US officials declared support for the opposition. In the afternoon, National Security Adviser, John Bolton, claimed senior Maduro aides were aware of the planned uprising and prepared to help lead a peaceful transition of power.

This is the Deutsche Welle's view of things. It illustrates the total distortion of events to suit their imperialist narrative.

What is clear is that western reporters are not even reporting from on the ground - but are sitting in neighbouring Colombia and relying on Twitter feeds - which makes them about as informed as I am sitting in New Zealand.

This is what goes for "analysis" in today's Guardian, which stands solidly behind the Big Moustache, Pompeus Minimus and Trump.

The Guardian’s former Latin America correspondent (now in Ireland), Rory Carroll, writes about the difference between Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

Oil prices tumbled and Maduro proved to be a fumbling showman, exposing the financial ineptitude and ideological hollowness of the “Bolivarian revolution”.

This could have doomed his presidency, which began in 2013 after Chávez died.

But the former bus driver, a hulking bear of a man who rose up trade union ranks, turned out to be tenacious and ruthless.

The story of his rule – and Venezuela’s agony – is a determination to keep power amid economic collapse, humanitarian disaster and international condemnation.

The military uprising which erupted on Tuesday has presented the sternest test yet, for Maduro and the Bolivarian project which Chavez launched in 1999.

“Nerves of steel!” Maduro tweeted in defiance hours after the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, appeared with mutinous troops outside La Carlota, a military base six miles from the presidential palace, Miraflores, in the capital Caracas.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/30/former-bus-driver-nicolas-maduro-clings-to-wheel-in-venezuela

Here is CNN

Western media: "We are all John Bolton"