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> #JimNaureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting wrote that Anderson’s article appeared “almost like a parody of corporate media coverage of an official enemy state.” Economist #MarkWeisbrot.. noted that Anderson wasn’t “letting commonly agreed-upon facts and numbers get in the way” of his.. diatribe against Chávez’s failures. Those criticisms remain independent from others who have observed his increasingly bizarre Twitter outbursts against critics.
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On Venezuela, The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson Fails at Arithmetic

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> The New Yorker’s.. fact checkers somehow permitted the publication of.. “Chavez suggested to me that he had embraced the far left as a way of preventing a coup like the one that put him in office.” .. in 1992, Chávez attempted a coup against an administration that had deployed security forces to massacre hundreds, perhaps thousands of civilian protesters.. Chávez was “put in office”.. in 1999, through a free and fair election... He instead wrote.. that #Chávez “assumed” power in 1999.
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> Anderson.. accused the deceased #VenezuelanPresident of..[being] machista, or sexist, “.. Women tended to be hosts at parties,.. not political advisers.” .. be news to #ErikaFarías..[former] head of the Office of the Presidency; #AdinaBastidas,.. vice president from 2000-2002; #CiliaFlores.. the country’s attorney general; #GabrielaDelMarRamírez.. public defender; #EdméeBetancourt, head of the Ministry of Commerce.. women direct three of the five branches of the #VenezuelanGovernment 🧵
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> .. NewYorker.com.. before Venezuela’s elections,.. wrote in error.. “Venezuela leads Latin America in homicides.”..United Nations data show that Honduras, with 91.6 killings per 100,000 in 2011, has twice the rate of homicides as Venezuela['s].. 45.1 in 2010. (El Salvador has 69.2.).. Anderson admitted his mistake.. addressing.. his editors at #thenewyorker and agreed to offer a correction. Over a month later, however, neither Anderson nor his editors have fixed his invented claim.
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> Anderson is performing sleight of hand with arithmetic here. He is excluding 16 disastrous years of economic history in which Chávez was never in office: from 1983 through 1998, real per capita income actually fell substantially, exacerbating poverty and housing insecurity to an unprecedented degree.

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On Venezuela, The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson Fails at Arithmetic

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