Miguel Tinker Salas Professor of History and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies

The U.S. reaction to events in Venezuela has been highly partisan.

The government of President Nicolás Maduro is depicted as losing popular support and purportedly relying on repression to stay in power. Meanwhile, in Mexico—where, according to a recent study, thirteen Mexicans disappear every day, and President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration has violently repressed public protests—Washington and the U.S. media have remained largely silent.

– See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/03/188028/mexico-and-venezuela-study-us-bias#sthash.uw4amB7n.dpuf