Francisco Toro writes today about Chavez’ plan to shut out the media and has this paragraph that I thought was quite eloquent:
Of course, the government has become so thuggish that that’s not particularly hard. The proliferation of amateur videos showing chavista activists attacking opposition gatherings, often shooting guns into opposition crowds, is the most striking example. Those videos are for real, as are the reams of self-destructive presidential statements, the burping generals, the footage of soldiers beating on opposition activsts, or any of the long list of moronic own-goals the government has been scoring in plain view of the TV cameras. You don’t need some sort of sophisticated media dirty tricks lab to make the government look thuggish on TV, as the chavistas would have it. No, you just have to put a camera in front of them and hit record.
As I tell everyone that is so critical of the opposition, there is no equivalent footage that you can blame on the opposition……
The Devil's Excrement 
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