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October 2020 marked the one-year anniversary of widespread anti-government protests in Chile, when millions of people took to the streets over growing inequality in the country.And on October 18, 2020, Patricia Villegas Marin, the president of the Venezuelan government-funded broadcast network, teleSUR, posted a photo on Twitter and wrote: "Santiago de Chile. October 18, 2020. One year after the popular mobilization." The tweet is incorrect. The photo Marin posted actually was from protests in 2019.Marin’s colleague, Paola Dragnic (a correspondent of teleSUR), vehemently defended its authenticity even as other Twitter users raised questions of misrepresentation.Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera has been a vocal opponent of Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicholas Maduro and his government, and vice-versa. In January 2019, Pinera joined the United States and other countries in recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s president after a disputed election.And in April, Pinera said on Twitter: We reiterate our full support for President Guaido and democracy in Venezuela. Maduro's dictatorship must end by the peaceful force
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