Stories about Venezuela from November, 2006
Venezuela: Plagiarizing Journalist Responds
Journalist Nestor Valecillos, who had plagiarized the post of a Venezuelan blogger, emailed two [ES] of his many [ES] critics to explain himself: “Before anything else, greetings, it's important to...
Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela: Chance meeting in Second Life
Trinidad blogger Taran Rampersad is delighted to meet a Venezuelan in Second Life: “Perhaps this is the start of a bridge across a geographic divide. So far I've met people...
Brazil: Post-Election Podcast
Luís Afonso Assumpção has published a podcast about his disappointment with the outcome of Brazil's latest elections and his thoughts on Latin America's current political reality.
Text Theft in Caracas
On November 17 Venezuelan architect and blogger, Guillermo Amador, jotted down a post titled “Traffic and Civilization” in which he criticized the Chief of Transit in Chacao [a neighborhood of...
Venezuela: Campaigning and History
Miguel Octavio describes the “perverse symbolism of the location of Chavez’ closing rally.”
Latin American Election Blogging
November is quite the electoral month in what has already been a year of elections throughout the Western Hemisphere. The month has already seen the return of Sanidinista leader, Daniel...
Venezuela: Electoral Musings
Miguel Octavio pens his “Electoral Musings from Caracas, concluding that, “with two weeks left, we have a very nervous Government, with changing campaign strategies almost daily and a war of...
Venezuela: Conference on Digital Journalism
The Third Congress on International Digital Journalism is currently underway in Maracay, Venezuela and Patricia Noriega is dutifully taking notes [ES].
Venezuela: Eight Polls
Eight recent polls on Venezuela’s elections are summarized by Reste@dos [ES]. The post includes the numbers from the Welsch / Observatorio Hannah Arendt released yesterday, as well as poll numbers...
Latin America, Venezuela: Polling Wars
On top of Boz's weekly poll numbers he also ventures into the controversial territory of the Venezuela polling wars and predicts that neither Chavez nor Rosales will win over 54%...
Venezuela: Opposite Disappointment
Alfredo Octavio, a consistent source of criticism about Chavez's rule, wonders if the opposition would be able to do any better.
Latin America: Friday Poll Numbers
A diverse set of Latin America's poll numbers this week from Boz including Transparency International's annual survey on perceptions of corruption. Also, Chavez up by 20 points in Venezuela and...
Venezuelan Oil is Red
During the last week, Venezuelan’s main topic of political conversation has been the new, fully red, fully chavista, PDVSA. The President of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, Rafael Ramírez, called...
Venezuela: Rafael Ramirez's Controversial Speech
Both Tomas Sancio and Miguel Octavio have links to a video (Octavio also links to an English translation) of Minister of Energy and Oil and President of PDVSA Rafael Ramirez...
Panama, Guatemala, Venezuela: Security Council Compromise
“Certain governments and institutions in the region (especially the international media) are desperate to divide the region into two camps and force everyone to choose sides,” comments Boz in a...
Venezuela: Vuelvan Caras
Guillermo Parra translates an Op-Ed by Elizabeth Araujo about Chavez's respect for Castro and the revamped Vuevan Caras Mission [ES].
Peru, Venezuela: Humala denies he received campaign money
Living in Peru and Peru Election 2006 both mention the continuing speculations that Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, financed the campaign of nationalist Ollanta Humala in Peru's last presidential elections.
