Stories about Venezuela from April, 2006
Venezuela: New CNE Board and Friday Night Fiesta
While Katy explains how the board of Venezuela's Electoral Council (the elections governing body) is selected, Francisco gives some background on the new five board members. Away from politics, Adriana...
World: Farmer's Market International Parade
Melissa De Leon and Elena Hernandez are co-hosting the “The Farmer's Market International Parade” where participants from across the world post photos of their neighborhood markets, which will then be...
Ukraine: Markets Won't Wait
At Foreign Notes, LEvko writes that Ukrainian president expects the coalition to be formed sometime in June, and Scott W. Clark cautions that this may be a bit too long...
Venezuela: Wikipedia Page on Venezuelan Cinema
BlogaCine, or “Cinema Blog” says (ES) that Wikipedia has a page on Venezuelan films (ES) that is growing slowly but surely.
Venezuela: Can Chavez be beat?
Both Boz and Miguel Octavio believe that there is a slight chance Chavez might lose in this year's presidential election. Daniel Duquenal is equally ambiguous. He says that the opposition...
Elections’ Race Between “Two Lefts”
The official announcement of Teodoro Petkoff’s candidacy turned Venezuela 2006 presidential race on. Since April 20th, when the announcement was made, the Venezuelan political debate has been focused on what...
Cooking Pleasures
#1: From Caracas, Venezuela: Blog de Zulmy I have just discovered her blog, but it seems to me that she is and will be one of the most active food...
Caribbean: Billionaires Investing in Local Telecoms
Last week Irish billionaire Dennis O'Brien announced his company Digicel was purchasing the Caribbean arm of Bouygues Telecom . This week Mexican billionnaire Carlos Slim announces he is purchasing three...
Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela: Poll Numbers
It's Friday and Boz has his now infamous poll numbers from across Latin America including a now tighter race in Mexico.
Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia: Crisis in the Andes
Explaining that Venezuela has already left and that Bolivia is thinking of following, Miguel Buitrago says that most of the achievements of The Andean Community (CAN) are only observable on...
Venezuela: “Hands Off Venezuela” in Arabic
Hands Off Venezuela says a new Arabic version of the site has been launched.
Caribbean, UK: Amerindian exhibit
At the Caribbean Beat Blog, Tracy Assing posts a short review of the “From the Amazon to the Caribbean” exhibition at the Hornmian Museum in Dulwich, England.
Venezuela: Julio Borges and Government Propaganda
Katy of Caracas Chronicles offers 20 reasons why she believes that Julio Borges is the man most capable of leading the opposition against Chavez. Oil Wars maintains its objectivity, criticizing...
Caribbean, Venezuela, USA: CARICOM talks with US
Seeing it as evidence that the Caribbean has begun to resist the overtures of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, A. M. Mora y Leon links gleefully to a Miami Herald article which...
Venezuela: Remembering the Coup
Jorge Arena has an almost comprehensive list of Anglophone Venezuelan bloggers who remarked on the fourth anniversary of the April 11th coup which temporarily removed Chavez from office. Oil Wars...
Colombia, Venezuela: Targeting Chavez
Oil Wars translates an article from the Colombian news weekly Semana, in which an ex-employee of the Colombian Department of Security Administration (DAS) claims that “plans that were hatched to...
Venezuela: Faddoul Brothers and Blanco Sisters
Ghost Blogger Jorge Arena compares the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the Faddoul brothers with that of the Blanco-Bandes sisters who were kidnapped a week after the Faddoul brothers and...
Protests Against Violence in Venezuela
Today marks the third straight day that Venezuelans have taken to the streets to protest the murders of three, young Canadian-Venezuelan brothers and their chauffeur who were kidnapped on February...
Venezuela: Documentary Movie “La Lista”
Daniel Duquenal says that the Venezuelan documentary, “La Lista” is starting to get the attention it deserves. Both Duquenal and Miguel Octavio have reviews of the film.
Ukraine: Hugo Chavez Knows About Orange Revolution
A.M. Mora y Leon at Publius Pundit writes about Hugo Chavez’ remark on the Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004: Venezuelan president has called it a “pink revolution” done by the...
Venezuela, Brazil: “A tale of two scandals”
Francisco draws a comparison between a recent bribery scandal in Brazil that was caught on video with another one in Venezuela of which there is also allegedly incriminating video.
