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Nicolas Maduro Kicks CNN Out Of Venezuela, Accuses It Of Spreading Fake News
Zero Hedge ^
| 02/13/2017
Posted on 02/13/2017 9:58:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
While tensions between President Trump and CNN dying down, a new scandal has erupted for the cable news network after Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he wanted CNN out of the country, accusing it of spreading fake news, misrepresenting the truth and meddling in issues that are not of its concern.
"CNN, do not get into the affairs of Venezuelans. I want CNN well away from here. Outside of Venezuela. Do not put your nose in Venezuela," said Maduro during a political statement. Quoted by Fox News, Maduro made the comment after blaming the U.S. network of distorting the facts when reporting on irregularities at a Caracas public high school.
"Some media like CNN tried to manipulate. They cannot manipulate! That is our business, of the Venezuelans," he said.
Last week PanAmPost reported that a student demanded on national television that the president improve the conditions of his school, asking for security, infrastructure and food so his classmates wouldnt faint from hunger anymore. CNN en Español visited the high school and talked with the staff about the student, and whether Maduro had made any improvements since that incident only to discover he had not.
Maduro said the young woman uncovered a situation that had to be spoken about adding that I want the youth to tell the truth, to be critical and revolutionary, for us to go to solve the problems, he said. To attend to those problems, we must build a sense of belonging in each school. Lyceum belongs to me and I must take care of it.
The demand for CNN to leave the country also came a few days after CNN en Espanol broadcast and posted online an in-depth investigation into how officials of the Venezuelan Embassy in Iraq allegedly sold Venezuelan passports and visas to suspected terrorists. Passports in the Shadows was the result of a yearlong investigation showcasing an account by a whistleblower, a former legal adviser to the Venezuelan embassy in Baghdad, and the government officials dismissal of the allegations.
Earlier on Sunday, Venezuelan police arrested and expelled two Brazilian reporters after they toured a structure built in 2012 by Odebrecht, the Brazilian company being investigated for a vast corruption scheme that allegedly touches several Latin American governments and heads of state.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; brazil; cnn; fakenews; gwot; hezbollah; iraq; maduro; odebrecht; panamapapers; passportfraud; passports; reporters; stolenpassports; venezuela; venezuelanvisas; visafraud; visas
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To: timestax
Even Socialists hate CNN..
HA
To: SeekAndFind
"I don't have to see it, Dottie..... I LIVED it..."
To: SeekAndFind
Truly the best laugh I have had in ages....
To: SeekAndFind
Oh man, you can’t make this stuff up!
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:32:28 AM PST
by
dforest
To: Col Frank Slade
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:33:34 AM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: SeekAndFind
Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he wanted CNN out of the country, accusing it of spreading fake news, misrepresenting the truth and meddling in issues that are not of its concern.
Sure...not surprising. Hell, they have been doing the same crap in America for years.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:38:31 AM PST
by
lafroste
(Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
To: SeekAndFind
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh stop you’re killing me! He did what? ha ha ha ha to who? CNN ha ha ha ha ha saying what? Oh my sides hurt!
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:39:53 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: SeekAndFind
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh stop you’re killing me! He did what? ha ha ha ha to who? CNN ha ha ha ha ha saying what? Oh my sides hurt!
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:39:54 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: SeekAndFind
Hahahaha! Spewed coffee. That’s hilarious. Still laughing.
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posted on
02/13/2017 10:57:52 AM PST
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: ScottinVA
What’s surprising though is that the story about selling passports to terrorists sounds like real investigative journalism.
Here in the U.S., they are trying to start a fire about Trumps immigration enforcement as though that’s a bad thing.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:00:11 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: SeekAndFind
It’s not fake news when it’s true. When CNN tells the truth about a socialist dictatorship, they deserve respect. Naturally, Maduro isn’t going to like it.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:02:35 AM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
Even a blind pig finds a nut once in a while.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:04:05 AM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
To: SeekAndFind
It don’t get much funnier than that....
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:08:03 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
I dislike CNN, but I despise Maduro, the successor of the late un-lamented Hugo Chavez. If he hates them, they must have (however inadvertently) done something right.
Exactly. Maduro isn’t agreeing with Trump. He’s pathetically mimicking Trump.
BTW, it looks like Maduro hasn’t “fainted from hunger” in a while.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:12:20 AM PST
by
samtheman
(Trump won bigly. Trump governs bigly. His critics don't get bigly.)
To: SeekAndFind
” a few days after CNN en Espanol broadcast and posted online an in-depth investigation into how officials of the Venezuelan Embassy in Iraq allegedly sold Venezuelan passports and visas to suspected terrorists.”
That can’t be. CNN assured us there are only Iraqi terrorist in Trumps imagination.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:12:37 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: SeekAndFind
This hugh and series; shirley Clinton News Network can find a Peter Arnett to send down there and report what the dictator feeds him!
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:16:31 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: SeekAndFind
Revolutionary socialism and average citizen starvation—sounds like everything is going according to plan!
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:26:35 AM PST
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: SeekAndFind
LMAO....Oh it hurts. If I am still laughing after 4 hours am I supposed to call a doctor?
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:51:14 AM PST
by
Gator113
( ~~Trump 2020~~)
To: SeekAndFind
“CNN—Fake news on TWO continents”.
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posted on
02/13/2017 3:33:42 PM PST
by
Defiant
(The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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