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Abby Goes to Venezuela

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Robbie Martin interviews Abby Martin about her recent trip to Venezuela, where she explains the reality on-the-ground, dissects the corporate media's propaganda campaign against the government and describes firsthand the fascistic, violent nature of opposition protesters carrying out daily barricades, known as "guarimbas". They also discuss the legacy of Hugo Chavez and why his brand of socialism poses such an enormous threat to the US Empire. Please donate to Media Roots Radio on Patreon, we wouldn't be able to do this show without your support! www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW: twitter.com/AbbyMartin & twitter.com/FluorescentGrey www.MediaRoots.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Meeting Roots Radio.

0:32.2

This is Robbie Martin.

0:33.8

And this is Abby Martin.

0:35.6

How's it going, everybody? It's been a while since we did our last

0:39.3

episode, partly because Abby's been in Venezuela working on a pretty awesome empire files report.

0:51.7

Pretty much one of the only journalists that I've seen on the ground at the protest in Venezuela,

0:57.3

which is quite a shame that there's so much slanted media coverage coming out here in the U.S. about Venezuela,

1:03.8

and almost all of it that I've seen is secondhand.

1:07.1

There's no, like, on the ground, original reporting being done by American journalists. So

1:12.5

um really have to commend Abby for doing this and spending so much time there and actually trying

1:20.7

to get an accurate picture of what's happening there on the ground. And you went into it with an open

1:26.7

mind. You weren't like, you know, super pro-Venezuelan government

1:31.7

or anything like that.

1:32.4

You just wanted to report accurately on what you saw.

1:35.7

So I'm really glad you did that.

1:39.0

And I can't wait to see what you guys put out.

1:42.2

But today, let's just kind of talk about, you know,

1:47.4

we'll give a preview basically to what your Empire Files report's going to be and go over

1:52.9

everything you saw there and how it differed from U.S. media coverage and, you know,

1:58.7

seeing it from outside the lens of the propaganda.

2:02.9

So, yeah, like, just tell me a little bit about how this opportunity came to you

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