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Podur: Voting Day in Venezuela!
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Thought I should check in, even though there are no results yet obviously. Indeed, there has been an announcement that the polls are closing 4 hours later than planned -- 10pm, that is, instead of 6pm. It is going to be a long night. The privat...
Podur: Voting Day in Venezuela!
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Thought I should check in, even though there are no results yet obviously. Indeed, there has been an announcement that the polls are closing 4 hours later than planned -- 10pm, that is, instead of 6pm. It is going to be a long night. The privat...
Podur: The calm before the?
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite common in Latin America, that no alcohol is to be sold or consumed until well after the referendum. And with good reason, g...
Podur: The calm before the?
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite common in Latin America, that no alcohol is to be sold or consumed until well after the referendum. And with good reason, g...
Podur: The Calm Before the?
Znet Article, August, 15 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Today is the day before the referendum. Not only is campaigning formally closed, but there is also a law in effect, quite common in Latin America, that no alcohol is to be sold or consumed until well after the referendum. And...
Podur: Venezuela:Florentino The Devil And The Opposition
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say the opposition march was the biggest ever—one estimate I heard, from a journalist who was at the Madrid demo...
Podur: Florentino, the Devil, and the opposition
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say the opposition march was the biggest ever -- one estimate I heard, from a journalist who was at the Madrid demonstra...
Podur: Florentino, the Devil, and the opposition
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Last night was the closing of the referendum campaign. It closed with huge marches of the opposition and the chavistas. They say the opposition march was the biggest ever -- one estimate I heard, from a journalist who was at the Madrid demonstra...
Podur: In Caracas: Memory and Media Circus as Campaigning Ends...
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest and work on Colom...
Podur: In Caracas: Memory and Media Circus as Campaigning Ends...
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest and work on Colom...
Podur: In Caracas
Znet Article, August, 13 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
It has been an interesting night and day. I have spent a substantial portion of the past 24 hours listening to Chavez speak. The man speaks a lot. But let me explain. Fear... My interest in Venezuela started with my interest ...
Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Podur: The Referendum Will Not Be Televised -- or, hello from Venezuela
Blog Post, August, 11 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Greetings from Venezuela. I am not sure how much blogging I will be able to do, or what I will be blogging about. But I am in Venezuela, and I am here to cover the referendum for ZNet, and so I am glad that blogging can be a part of that. More l...
Podur: Colombia and Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 04 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Carlos Andres Perez, a former President of Venezuela and leader of the Venezuelan 'opposition' against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said in a recent interview that "Violence will allow us to remove [Chavez]. That's the only way we have," and ...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists, Part II
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Back to Part I From local 'threats' to global 'threats' Desmond Morton, another completely mainstream and conventional historian, nevertheless makes a good point about the implications of Canada's military relationship with the US. The onl...
Podur: Canada for anti-imperialists
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Based on a talk given to the 'Nageh' community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. Part 1 of 2. Go to part 2 The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and pos...
Podur: Stateless and Deported
Znet Article, June, 24 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
For over a year, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees has been working in Montreal to stop deportations against these members of an already stateless and oppressed community. The coalition's political campaign and ca...
Podur: The Final Answer Will Be Given by the Tanks
Znet Article, June, 19 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A few months ago, the commander of the Venezuelan Army, Raul Baduel, described something that worried him (1). Colombia had just purchased 46 AMX-30 battle tanks from Spain. The media claimed the tanks were to fight drug trafficking, b...
Podur: Kanehsatake
Znet Article, May, 19 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show their support for a peaceful resolution to a confrontation between heavily armed agents of the state and a community that rejects t...
Podur: Terrorist Plot Foiled!
Znet Article, May, 10 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
A beleaguered democracy beset by continual terrorist attacks by ruthless, depraved, and highly imaginative terrorists managed to foil a terrorist plot yesterday. By taking swift, decisive police action, a terrorist training camp full of fore...
