Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: LatinAmericaSometimes what's good for Venezuela may have similarities or differences with the rest of that diverse and extensive concept which is Latin AmericaSergio Ramirez on Chavez, Lula and Latin America- October 23, 2002 Sergio Ramirez, who was Vice-President of the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua, who wrtote the very interesting book Adios Muchachos, had these very interesting things to say in yesterday's local newspaper El Nacional: &147;I have given many opinions about Chavez. I think he had his moment, his first moments, and very important ones for the history of Venezuela. But the society is divided. And that to me is a failure. A million people here, another million there. And for a country to be.http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/10/23.html#a141 Participatory Democracy: National Assembly changes electoral law, what next- October 23, 2002 At a time that Venezuelans are clamoring for a referendum (which can be called by the National Assembly at any time). The week after the Vice-President (not the President, who refused to sign it, which was requested by the opposition)signed the declaration of principles with the OAS, which includes a dialogue to solve the political crisis of Venezuela, the National Assembly with the vote of only Chavez' MVR party approved yesterday modifications to the Electoral Law. If approved by the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/10/23.html#a140 Granma changes history: Misleading picture removed from article.- October 18, 2002 If you look today at Cuba's daily Granma, the image of the opposition march used in the article of Chavez' march has dissapeared. I am not quite sure why it still is in my story about it, I still have the right image even with the same size of justification. I have the old image of the full article saved, I just can't figure out yet how to post it. I will. (Note added an Oct. 21st: I added the picture to the section Granma Lies on the left, you can see the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/10/18.html#a124 Editorial on Venezuela by Peru's El Comercio de Lima- October 17, 2002 This is my translation of the Editorial two days ago by one of Lima's leading newspapers: The large demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez express the high level of popular discontent caused by his authoritarian ways and his poor economic performance. It is a fact, that the so-called "Takeover of Caracas", last Thursady the 10th. exceeded the expectations of the organizers: It is calculated that more than one million people went to protest agaisnt the Government, without...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/10/17.html#a120 Cuba, lies and Videotapes (or at least pictures)- October 14, 2002 The power of the web The web has some incredible features as yet not fully realized. Last Friday Caracas' newspaper Tal Cual published a picture of last Thursday's opposition march: Yesterday Cuba's glorious Government newspaper Granma published the same picture accompanying a story of Hugo Chavez' glorious "two million people" march which took place three days later on Sunday: How about that, the net does not allow you to lie!!! You can lie but you can't...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/latinamerica/2002/10/14.html#a107 |