teleSUR Shows How the Guardian Gets It Wrong on Latin America | VIDEO

A recent article by the Guardian’s environment writer David Hill on the recent protests in the Ecuador was titled “Protests by 1,000s of Ecuadorians meet with brutal repression” and claimed that the police were teargassing and clubbing protesters, while in other parts the police were “specifically targeting female protestors’ ‘intimate parts.’”

While Hill’s bio on the Guardian states that he is a “freelance writer based in the Amazon,” teleSUR English is based in Quito and has been covering the protests in the country over the past few months and was on the ground and witnessed and reported significantly different scenes from this week’s protests in Quito.

teleSUR English’s team put together a video that demonstrates how Hill’s article was riddled with errors and misrepresentations and how the Guardian got Latin America wrong yet again.

The article seemed to quote only anti-government protesters, while ignoring and failing to interview at least one of the thousands of pro-government Ecuadoreans who were rallying in front of the presidential palace at the same time as the opposition riots were taking place.

Also, footage by teleSUR from the riots, featured in the video, shows members of the Ecuadorean opposition, who the Guardian chose to portray as victims, attacking police with projectiles and fireballs and about anything they could get their hands on.

While the police did show great restraint, it did eventually react with teargas to disperse the violent crowds and stop them from entering the presidential place.

Leaders of the opposition parties, whose members were interviewed by Hill, have been calling for a coup against President Rafael Correa as they call on the military and the police to “rebel.” Meanwhile, President Rafael Correa maintains more than 60 percent approval rate.

Watch this short feature for more on why the Guardian, and many other mainstream western media outlets, get Ecuador and Latin America wrong.

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(veteran watchers of The Guardian and other corporate media portals will be unsurprised to see a democratically elected socialist government under attack from material most likely supplied by the US intelligence services – Haze)