The obscene article on Venezuelan
opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, published in Foreign Policy, see: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/27/the-making-of-leopoldo-lopez-democratic-venezuela-opposition/
was written by a mercenary called Roberto Lovato, a man who was working for the
Venezuelan regime television station TELESUR when he wrote it. In an act of
stupidity or worse Foreign Policy went on to publish this article, which had
been paid for by The Nation Institute. The article was part of a concerted strategy
by The Nation Institute and the Venezuelan regime to discredit Lopez, see: https://www.thenation.com/article/leopoldo-lopez-is-not-venezuelas-savior/.
The role played by Foreign Policy
and its editors, including David Rothkopf, Chief Editor and CEO, was very sad.
Some readers believed FP was part of the conspiracy, others simply felt that
they had been duped, due to their sloppy fact-checking abilities. Their
reluctance to rectify the falsehoods in the article, even after these errors
were called to their attention, seems difficult to understand if they had
simply been unwilling parties to the attempt at Lopez’s moral assassination.
Whatever their role in this grotesque
event was, I wonder how do they feel today, when they see that the main government
fiscal for Lopez prosecution, Mr. Franklin Nieves, escaped with his family to
the U.S. and is claiming that he was forced by the regime to present false
accusations against Leopoldo Lopez. See: http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/10/23/primera-declaracion-del-fiscal-franklin-nieves-caso-leopoldo-lopez-despues-de-su-salida-de-venezuela-video/
With the full truth about this
confabulation against Leopoldo Lopez finally emerging, the credibility of FP has
been further weakened. Were they accomplices in the plot against Leopoldo
Lopez, in which The Nation Institute and the Venezuelan regime participated, or
were they simply incompetent? We do not yet know.
Act III might tell.
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"Their reluctance to rectify the falsehoods in the article, even after these errors were called to their attention, seems difficult to understand if they had simply been unwilling parties to the attempt at Lopez’s moral assassination."
Same could be said for some of our own people, 110 comments on that here:
http://caracaschronicles.com/2015/07/28/leopoldo-in-depth/
I'm not inclined to give FP a free pass on this one.
The character assassination of Leopoldo López was obvious to FP editors, as soon as they laid their eyes on it. Shameful!
http://www.noticierodigital.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2836
Whatever their role in this grotesque event was, I wonder how do they feel today, when they see that the main government fiscal for Lopez prosecution, Mr. Franklin Nieves, escaped with his family to the U.S. and is claiming that he was forced by the regime to present false accusations against Leopoldo Lopez.
I guess FP's reply would be that FP had no way of knowing the above at the time of publication of FP's article on LL. Which is a joke, because any cursory reading of oppo blogs on Venezuela would show trumped-up charges against LL. But those were not "credible" sources, would say FP. You needed a "credible" information source, such as TeleSur to verify such charges. :) Sarcasm....for those who can't detect online sarcasm/jokes..
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