Abstract
This paper focuses on 16 short news reports published between March 2016 and May 2017 by the Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación e Información, an official entity managed by the Government of Venezuela. In appearance, such news reports function as an informational vehicle to talk about women or to women. I employ the matrix of the ideological square (van Dijk 1996b, 20-21) to analyze 1) the headlines of news with striking or unusual free collocations, and 2) the ideological content of the reports. The objective is to determine if there are contrastive features 'us' vs. 'them' and to shed light on them, understanding that 'us' refers to the women (or a collective within which they are a majority) who support the government, and 'them' refers to those outside that group. I conclude that the employment of discourse strategies that follow this pattern in official news carries the implicit intention of strengthening the process of ideologization and polarization among Venezuelan citizens.