The international corporate media engaged in a non-stop effort to discredit both Venezuela's elections and the Bolivarian Revolution in general. Peru's Canal 5, a private television station owned by the country's largest video monopoly, broadcast a deliberately false report attacking the Venezuelan embassy for not allowing its citizens living abroad to vote, even though this has never occurred with legislative elections. The wild and lurid tales of electoral repression and violence were a staple of media coverage of Venezuela. Rael Mora reports from Lima. teleSUR
