Source: People’s Daily
What it’s about: The article highlights comments made by President Nicolás Maduro at an event celebrating national journalist day, during which he accused the U.S. government of ordering Euroclear (a major trading house) to withold $1.4 billion that was destined for Venezuela.
What’s misleading about it: This article is misleading because it doesn’t comment on Venezuela’s debt repayment status or the state of limbo that exists between investors and Maduro’s government, which halted most payments to investors in 2017. The article suggests to readers that the U.S. and EU sanctions—not mismanagement of an economy by an increasingly autocratic regime—are primarily to blame for Venezuela’s cash strapped economy.