Stories about Venezuela from July, 2005
Latin America Responds to TeleSur's Launch
This past Sunday a small group of 25 journalists in Caracas, Venezuela began pilot-broadcasting a new Pan-American satellite news network called TeleSur which, by September, hopes to be reaching audiences all throughout the Americas with at least nine regional bureaus including Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Washington D.C, La Paz and...
Latin America: Inter-American Development Bank Elections
Juanson World has an excellent rundown of the candidates to join the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development. His post was then updated at 1 p.m. to note that Colombian ambassador, Luis Alberto Moreno won the post.
Venezuela: New Voting System
The Sumate Files looks at a controversial new voting system which will be tested out in two states during next month's elections.
Venezuela: Tulio Alvarez Arrested
Daniel of Venezuela News and Views is updating a post throughout the day on the reported arrest of Venezuelan opposition lawyer, Tulio Alvarez, by the Venezuelan National Guard.
Venezuela: Land Reform
Tomas Sancio of Baruta, Venezuela talks about land reform and the problems it is causing on the blog, Venezuela Politics.
Venezuela: polling
Daniel of Venezuela News and Views discusses “The difficult art of Venezuelan polling”
Venezuela: Sumate
Daniel of Venezuela News and Views compares Chavez's persecution of opposition group SUMATE with Rome's ancient persecution of Carthage.
Venezuela: New Currency Law
Venezuelan Politics discusses a new law which places greater regulation on currency trading in Venezuela and offers some possible consequences.
Venezuela: VOA for Latin America
Boz responds with scepticism to a US House approval of specifically focusing Voice of America-like broadcasting at Venezuela, which will soon begin its own hemisphere-wide cable television channel.
Venezuela: Confusing Terms
Tomas Sancio discusses the manipulation of economic terms in the Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional. Complete with translations.
Venezuela: From the Left and Right
Venezuela News and Views takes a look at the coverage of Venezuela amongst the most popular liberal and conservative blogs in English. His conclusion: “Venezuela is indeed only a blip on the US public opinion radar and my blog a niche blog as a reader once told me.”
Andean Nations: Andean conference
Boz is keeping his eyes out for English-language coverage of the Community of Andean Nations summit in Lima. So far, it seems to be scant.
Venezuela, Cuba: Cubano docs in Venezuela
Boli-Nica writes about the large number of Cuban doctors sent to Venezuela.
Venezuela: Chavez Police Cars
The Devil's Excrement isn't happy with the new Chavez covered Metropolitan Police cars in Caracas.
Venezuela: The Sumate Files
A new group blog, The Sumate Files has been set up with the purpose of: “compiling the most important articles appearing anywhere on the net and in English mostly. Our objective is to help Sumate resist the witch hunt that Chavez and his followers want to subject Sumate directors to....
Venezuela: Mision Cultura, the bolivarian cultural revolution
Daniel of Venezuela News and Views calls Chavez's new initiative, Mision Cultura, a Venezuelan attempt of a Cultural Revolution or Kulturkampf.
teleSUR
El Machete, written by a Mexican studying in Australia, weighs the pros and cons of the future continent-wide television network, teleSUR, in Latin America.
Boz Covers Latin America
Boz, writing from Bogota, Colombia, has an excellent roundup of (mostly) Latin American links.
The SUMATE summary
Venezuela News and Views gives a detailed summary of the Venezuelan opposition group SUMATE and the current government trial it faces.
Americas Friday Blog Roundup
Taran Rampersad discusses Wikipedia in the Caribbean and specifically, Guyana. He's also got some good updates on Hurricane Dennis. Agua Fuertes 2004 starts a long discussion when questioning whether Google Earth respects Argentina's privacy [es]. Nada importante sucedió hoy… writes about the potential future of biotech in Argentina [es]. MABB...
Americas Daily Blog Roundup
Jeff Barry spreads the word about early 20th century Argentine artist, Xul Solar. Barrio Flores has an excellent post about Bolivian cinema. Blog de Bolivia seeks to explain Carlos Mesa's increasing popularity [es] as the December general elections approach. MABB covers former Bolivian president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada's thoughts on...
