Glenn Greenwald compare les déclarations d’Obama après la mort de Chavez (4 lignes pète-sec, se terminant par un rappel aux principes démocratiques et aux droits de l’Homme) et du roi séoudien (enthousiasme pour ce grand démocrate sur 3 paragraphes et un émouvant « May God grant him peace ») :
Compare and Contrast : Obama’s Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chávez
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/compare-contrast-obamas-reaction-king-abdullah-hugo-chavez
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https://prod01-cdn00.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/01/abdullah.png One obvious difference between the two leaders was that Chávez was elected and Abdullah was not. Another is that Chávez used the nation’s oil resources to attempt to improve the lives of the nation’s most improverished while Abdullah used his to further enrich Saudi oligarchs and western elites. Another is that the severity of Abdullah’s human rights abuses and militarism makes Chávez look in comparison like Gandhi.
But when it comes to western political and media discourse, the only difference that matters is that Chávez was a U.S. adversary while Abdullah was a loyal U.S. ally – which, by itself for purposes of the U.S. and British media, converts the former into an evil villainous monster and the latter into a beloved symbol of peace, reform and progress.
