More Blatant BBC Bias against the Bolivarian Republic | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |Axisoflogic.com

Attention BBC Editors:

How can you permit the publication of this misleading and exaggerated trash about the fuel situation in Venezuela?

Sure, there are queues to buy gasoline, but not 'days' as your badly informed correspondent Katy Watson writes. Yesterday I joined a queue to buy gasoline of about 4 blocks and it took me just 45 minutes. All pumps were open and well controlled by the National Guard on duty.

No one queues for days - not anymore. So why does Katy misrepresent the situation?

The only time that happened was in the December 2002 - February 2003 oil industry sabotage.

Ten years ago this same correspondent, Katy Watson, was accused by Medialens of gross misreporting and biased opinions on Venezuela and not following BBC parameters - yet she continues in the same vein and you editors at the BBC allow it.

At the same time she NEVER explains why Venezuelan refineries stopped producing gasoline for the internal market.

To enlighten you - as you probably do not know this: the technology in the main refineries (Amuay and El Palito, for example) is North American and due to the commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US on our country, it is impossible for the government owned oil company, PDVSA, to buy spare parts for maintenance. Oil industry support companies from the US, such as Sclumberger and Halliburton, left Venezuela and even if spare parts can be located, purchasing them is impossible since the US Treasury has blocked Venezuela from using SWIFT for international dollar transfers.

In other words the US, EU and Lima "Cartel" - as well as several Venezuelan right-wing radical politicians - want more sanctions to strangle the economy and force an uprising to topple Maduro. Well, it is not going to happen and hopefully the case being heard by the International Criminal Court in The Hague brought by Venezuela against the US for crimes against humanity, will be successful for world public opinion to see.

I challenge you to republish just one positive report Katy Watson has written on Venezuela instead of this almost post-apocalyptic drivel!!

Before it was "food and medicine shortages" and queues to buy food - now it is fuel shortages. Car owners may have to queue from time to time to fill up, but the increase in traffic this month of December is clear evidence that there is enough gasoline to go round.

If the situation were as dire as Katy Watson always portrays it, do you think that the Chavez and Maduro government would have been elected and re-elected time and again for more than 20 years with all elections being the most internationally observed in the world?

Finally, just Google "BBC media bias against Venezuela" and there are lists of articles illustrating your stance - and Katy Watson is in the vanguard of this consciously generated media complicity.

Arturo Rosales
Caracas

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