Stories about Venezuela from September, 2006
Venezuela: Elections and Crime
Oil Wars dissects and criticizes the anti-crime platform of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.
Venezuela: Mérida Festival of Venezuelan Film
The Mérida Festival of Venezuelan Film is calling for submissions [ES], says Blog Venezolano de Cine.
Venezuela: Anti-Semitism
Daniel Duquenal posts the translation by Alexandra Beech of an article from El Diario Caracas which, according to Duquenal, “goes a long way in illustrating how silently but surely chavismo is seeding the plant of anti Semitism.”
Venezuela: Elections and Education
Katy takes a photographic look at Hugo Chavez's reelection campaign while Oil Wars offers a photographic tour of new schools throughout the country.
Venezuela: Blog Roundup
A.M. Mora y Leon has a useful roundup of Venezuela's English-speaking blogosphere.
Mexico: If Chavez Visits
Political commentator Ana Maria Salazar explains why she hopes that Hugo Chavez comes to Mexico. Also, another helpful roundup of the day's news.
Venezuela: Polling the Elections and Crime
Caracas Connect has one last summary from their recent delegation to Caracas while francisco describes the voting poll wars and Oil Wars examines Venezuela's crime problem.
Venezuela: Iria Puyosa
Before Blog Day 2006 Rebecca MacKinnon elicited responses to a series of questions regarding how and why bloggers around the world devote so much time to an activity that pays little to nothing at all. Here is how Global Voices Venezuelan contributor Iria Puyosa responded (ES). * I started my...
Venezuela: “The seams are beginning to show some rips”
Explaining the etymology of his weblog, The Devil's Excrement, Miguel Octavio lays out his theory as to why Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution is “ripping at the seams.” Oil Wars, on the other hand, cites polling numbers from Venezuelan firm Datanalysis that “show that income is rising for Venezuela’s poor majority.”
Venezuela: Rosales Rally Attacked
Miguel Octavio describes a campaign rally by opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, who according to Octavio, “attacked with rocks, bottles and bullets by a bunch of intolerant people wearing red t-shirts and distributing pamphlets with a picture of Rosales at the Miraflores Palace on April 11th. 2002, asking that the law...
Latin America: Poll Numbers
It's Friday … time to leave the office at 3 and time for Boz's weekly poll numbers. Here's a good look ahead at upcoming elections in Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Venezuela: to2blogs
to2blogs (todos blogs, or “all blogs”) looks like an excellent (ES) alternative (ES) to the no-longer-active Veneblogs.com (ES). The to2blogs weblog describes (ES) the project as a “vertical directory of Venezuelan blogs.”
BlogDay 2006 in Latin America
On August 31 bloggers around the world tried to make the planet a tad smaller, a wee bit more familiar, by introducing five new blogs to their readers. Here is a look at how some Latin American bloggers chose to celebrate the day. Let's start in Mexico where Ricardo Carréon,...
Cuba: Chavez visits again
Cuban television has broadcast more video of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro being visited by his friend and ally, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, reports Luis M. Garcia, who gleans two key messages from the footage.
