Dispatch from Venezuela: the government’s massive food distribution apparatus
NOVANEWS
By Gloria La Riva
Volunteers pack food at a CLAP food distribution center for the elderly and disabled who need delivery to their homes. Antímano neighborhood on the outskirts of Caracas, Feb. 16, 2019. Gloria La Riva, Liberation photo
Editor’s Note: this article was written on Feb. 22 as the author, Gloria La Riva, made her way to the Colombian border crossing, to observe the standoff there.
A visit to any social project, walking the streets, seeing Venezuela with one’s own eyes, shatters the demonized images that the U.S. government and media are projecting of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Outrageous lies against the government of President Nicolas Maduro are being published or broadcast on a daily basis by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc., to paint a picture...