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Golinger: US Media Intensifies Campaign Against Chavez
Commentary, September, 23 2010
Eva Golinger
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As election time approaches in Venezuela, international media increase negative coverage of the South American nation. CNN applauds terrorism against Venezuela, while Fox News accuses the Chavez government of terrorism.
Pearson: Venezuelan Private Gas Company Workers Demand Nationalization
Znet Article, September, 15 2010
Tamara Pearson
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Private domestic gas company workers are demanding that their companies be nationalized and converted to worker and community control, alternative Venezuelan website Aporrea reported on Tuesday.
Weisbrot: The Venezuelan Economy: Media Sources Get It Wrong, Again
Znet Article, September, 14 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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The bulk of the media often gets pulled along for the ride when the United States government has a serious political and public relations campaign around foreign policy. But almost nowhere is it so monolithic as with Venezuela. Even in the run-up ...
Golinger: US Interference In Venezuelan Elections
Commentary, September, 10 2010
Eva Golinger
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A report commissioned by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and published in May 2010 by the Spanish Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) revealed that this year alone, international agencies are investing be...
Golinger: Chavez: Security a Priority
Commentary, September, 04 2010
Eva Golinger
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The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty
Young: "They’re Running the Economy Into the Ground"
Znet Article, September, 03 2010
Kevin Young
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U.S. corporate media have taken aim at Latin American economic policies that diverge from Washington’s neoliberal prescriptions—despite those prescriptions’ contribution to the financial crisis.
Wilpert: Recession Forcing Colombia Venezuela Peace
Video, August, 29 2010
Gregory Wilpert
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Greg Wilpert on relations between the two countries....
Weisbrot: Does Washington Want Normal Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela?
Znet Article, August, 19 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos met in Santa Marta, Colombia last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce diplomatic fight, there are no indications that such détente is in...
Weisbrot: Colombia-Venezuela Dispute Will Be Better Resolved In South America
Znet Article, July, 29 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution (March 18) to the election campaign under way in Venezuela, where voters will choose a new National Assembly in September. I predicted that certain things would happen before September...
Gollinger: Venezuela and Colombia break relations
Commentary, July, 28 2010
Eva Gollinger
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President Chavez ordered maximum alert on Venezuela’s border with Colombia after the Uribe administration made grave accusations against Venezuela claiming the Chavez government harbors terrorists and terrorist training camps.
Suggett: Venezuelan National Workers Union Calls for Greater Worker Control
Znet Article, July, 21 2010
James Suggett
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Venezuela’s principal union federation, the National Union of Workers (UNETE), recently circulated a document calling for broader nationalizations, a revolutionary labor law, and a radical shift toward a democratic, worker-led management model to ...
Weisbrot: Life Imitates Art
Znet Article, July, 18 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," which I wrote with Tariq Ali...
Gollinger: Buying the Press
Commentary, July, 16 2010
Eva Gollinger
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US State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $4...
Landau: A Tale Of Two Extraditions
Commentary, July, 06 2010
Saul Landau
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The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.
Wilpert: New York Times to Oliver Stone
Commentary, July, 01 2010
Gregory Wilpert
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It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone’s recently released documentary “South of the Border” of “mistakes, misstatements and missing details,” manages to get practically every single statement of h...
Naiman: Stone's 'Border' Shows Fall of South America's Berlin Wall
Znet Article, June, 26 2010
Robert Naiman
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On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The B...
Suggett: Venezuelan Land Law Reform Promises “Land for Those Who Work on It”
Znet Article, June, 24 2010
James Suggett
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The Venezuelan National Assembly passed a reform to the Land Law on Tuesday night which increases the ability of landless tenant farmers to obtain land and strengthens the state’s power to convert large, idle estates into food producers.
Gollinger: NED Report: International Agencies fund Venezuelan opposition with $40-50 million annually
Commentary, June, 22 2010
Eva Gollinger
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A revealing report published in May 2010 by the FRIDE Institute, a Spanish think tank, prepared with funding from the World Movement for Democracy (a project of the National Endowment for Democracy “NED”), has disclosed that international agencies...
Suggett: Venezuela in OAS: No Honduran Re-Entry until Democracy Restored
Znet Article, June, 19 2010
James Suggett
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During the 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday, Venezuela reaffirmed its opposition to the re-entry of Honduras to the OAS as long as the regime led by Porfirio Lobo, which came to power through a military...
Albert: Chasing Chavez
Znet Article, June, 18 2010
Michael Albert
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An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez
