Id go one over OW, the State media is a necessity to counter the out out fabrications of the free press owned and operated by members of the opposition to the government!
Yet we see this distortion of reality as if they are the victims when they are ones who have a long standing campaign of disinformation. Further, by way of you being able to post that news article here shows in its self that free speach is alive and well. Were the allegations claimed in the aritcle true, the article itself would not be published, here or elswhere.
No reader of this sort of crap should be fooled by the crocodile tears.
OW:
Did you hear about Venezuelas undemocratic authoritarian government?
OAS starts visit to Venezuela
The Organization of American States (OAS) briefed Monday on a four-day visit to Caracas beginning Tuesday 12th in order to "delve into the need and conditions of potential observation during the elections next August 7th in that nation.
"The visit is at the invitation of Jorge Rodríguez Gómez, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) to observe the elections for councilors and parish boards," a press release stated.
OAS Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza appointed Rubén Perina, the special advisor to the Department for Democratic and Political Affairs, to coordinate the effort. Perina was chief of OAS mission during the Venezuelan polls held in 2000.
In a letter addressed to the CNE head, the Secretary-General noted that the organization "welcomes with much interest the invitation made" and thanked for "trust by the National Electoral Council of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela put in the work carried out by OAS to reinforce democracy in the hemisphere."
The mission plans to meet with CNE and government authorities, NGO's representatives and members of foreign organizations to learn about existing conditions for observation of elections and the political context.
http://english.eluniversal.com/
2...11A576745.shtml
You would think that this might some influence of peoples claims of non-democracy, communisim, fascisim, Authoritarioanism, but you know as well as I do that nothing the Chavez Admin does will ever be recognized. This should at least show those observers with perhaps a little less information, the true intentions of the Venezuelan Government.
Wha' no Jimmy this time?
Pulpo:
Here is the deal on the observers. The EU and Carter Center aren't coming in August because they are local elections and they don't monitor local elections - only national ones. Currently the CNE voter lists are being audited by outside auditors.
The CNE has made it clear it want observers to come for future electoral processes, in particular the EU. So they probably will come in December for the Assembly elections. This in spite of Tulio Alvarez going and trying to get them NOT to come. The opposition knows it can't win fair elections so all it can try to do, in its hatred for Chavez, is discredit them. Not much of a strategy but its all they have.
Remember this?:
http://oilwars.blogspot.com/2005...-
elections.html
Thanks for the clarification OW. These issues need to be revisited every now and again so that it remains fresh in the mind.
"Id go one over OW, the State media is a necessity to counter the out out fabrications of the free press owned and operated by members of the opposition to the government!"
I agree public media serves a public purpose, in the US it is to balance blatant comercialism and that damn Aruba story, in Vzla it is partly to battle comercialism but also to balance the reporting.
Indeed, I hope to see more in the way of 'community media', from radio stations to newspapers, and television.
The people need to make the media--and not the people with the most money.
Here in the US it is only community radio stations where you can hear truely dissident news and views.
It is the differing interpretations of events that make a real difference--that and mobilization on a person-to-person, neighborhood-to-neighborhood, basis.
Making the flow of information more diffuse, will better strenghten the population to ward off and resist invasion by other powers/nations.
More, part of what makes the opposition so weak is their collective unwillingness to expose themselves to the views of the popular sectors, Chavez' political base.
Pro-Bolivarian forces keep up regularly with the political line of the commercial/pro-oligarch Venezuelan media.
If these folks at the Venezuelan Economic Review are living in the bubble, still in the Fourth Republic. And if they side were to gain power you can be sure that they won't speak out if a rightwing regime trys to shut down the community media.
Chavez' strategy with respect to the oligarch media is pretty smart:--by not shutting down these pro-imperialist/comprador media, the corporate media's fanatically rightwing interpretation of events works to discredit the message in the eyes of the majority of the voting public. The people can see how morally bankrupt the Venezuelan oligarch media is by looking at how they cover Iraq, US foriegn policy, the missions, etc.
After all, the Venezuelan ruling class actually continues the myth that there is no type of racism in the nations social/economic relations. This is a priviledged class in extreme denial, and the publication of these complaints by the Venezuelan Economic Review brings this fortuitous fact into clear releif against a backdrop of evolving events that trend clearly in Chavez' and the Latin American left's favor.
Neoliberalism has hit its logical, social, ecological, economic, and cultural limit.
This is a time for offense==and Chavez understands as much.
Oligarchs and their minions suffer==the majority of the population wins.
Poemas de Quebrada de la Virgen (1985)
Armando Rojas Guardia
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Así como a veces desearíamos
que Karl Marx y Arthur Rimbaud
se hubiesen conocido en una mesa
de algún Café de Londres,
mientras en el agua sorda del Támesis
-ahíta de grumos aceitosos
que flotan entre botellas y colillas
y ropa gris de gente ahogada-
espera el Barco Ebrio, ya sin anclas,
a que el fantasma que recorra Europa
suba también, para zarpar
(Karl, vestido con blue jeans marineros
se despide de Engels en el muelle
y Tahúr hace lo propio con Verlaine
-los sueños insolentes hasta ahora enfundados
en la gorra que usó él mismo en la Comuna);
así como, a estas alturas, quisiéramos
que Hegel, apeado del estrado de su cátedra,
hubiese visitado a Hölderlin un día
en su manicomio oculto de la torre
para escuchar cómo el demente
-sin reconocerlo tal vez en su delirio-
le habla de un viejo amigo de Tubinga
con quien, en mitad de una fiesta adolescente,
bailó una mañana, junto a un árbol
por ellos mismos levantado
(“Libertad”, lo llamarían)
tan fieros y felices como niños orinándose,
con el impudor de los puerros, frente al rey
(en la siesta monocorde del verano,
recordando novias suavísimas de Heidelberg,
los dos compañeros se confiesan:
la razón deben pedirle a la locura
su danza irreductible, la inocencia
con que el loco Hiperión, desde su torre,
enseña al profesor de la luz blanca,
la rosa de los vientos del Espíritu,
no termina en el Estado de los Césares,
se burla de las Prusias de los Káiseres);
(...)
(...)
así querría yo hoy que a William Blake
lo hubiesen dejado predicar un solo día
sobre el púlpito labrado de una iglesia
-la catedral de Westminster, por ejemplo-
en presencia de arzobispos y presbíteros
y de una multitud de feligreses
harta, como todas, de sermones.
Imagino el viento sagrado resonando,
por primera vez, junto a los mármoles,
mientras los cuerpos, desnudados por fin
como a la hora del agua o del amor,
se erizan con el paso del Dios vivo
y tiemblan ante el olor de Cristo el Tigre
devorando las ingles de las almas,
ahora tan intactas, tan ebrias y tan vírgenes
como la de aquel niño canoso viendo ángeles
a la hora en que arde Venus sobre Lambeth
y hasta las prostitutas de Soho profetizan.
(Armando Rojas Guardia)
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