[Opinion] Twitter Is Politics In Venezuela
Struggles to use Twitter mirror the political climate
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
Published 2010-02-08 11:35 (KST)
Twitter, as part of a social media strategy, is an imperative to politics! However, to use it effectively, a politician needs to invest time in managing it.
The government, here, has shut down discourse on radio and TV, and [...]
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Hugo Chávez’s currency devaluation ploy won’t work
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Alot has been written in recent days about the economic impact of the maxi-devaluation announced Friday by Venezuela’s authoritarian-populist President Hugo Chávez.
But the measure’s political impact may be just as important, if not more.
With his drastic devaluation of the Venezuelan currency, Chávez can transform the [...]
Billionaire businessman and conservative politician Sebastián Piñera is the favorite to win the presidential election on Sunday in Chile. However, according to surveys, he does not avoid a runoff, scheduled for January 17.
Piñera will likely face the government’s candidate, Eduardo Frei, in the second round. If he win, the entrepreneur will be the first president [...]
War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics
Tensions have been escalating in the last few weeks between Colombia and Venezuela, two neighboring countries which already have strained relations. In mid-October, 8 Colombians were kidnapped and murdered execution-style after playing an amateur football match across the border in Venezuela. In addition, the bodies of 1 Peruvian and 1 [...]
José Alberto Mujica Unruguay won the election for president; he is from the same political party of Tabare Vasquez. He was a guerrilla Tupamaro, but at 75 years of age he has to favor a moderate left (a social democracy), and politicians joined forces with the losing candidate Lacalle, in order to solve urgent problems [...]
By: Romina Ruiz-Goiriena / Miami
Not too long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami’s Cuban-American hard-liners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half-dozen trips to Cuba during this decade have changed his mind about the latter. “There [...]
Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela
By SIMON ROMERO
CARACAS, Venezuela — This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse.
President Hugo Chávez [...]
Published by: Alfredo Ascanio Guevara–WORLD oF the BLOG
A recent poll conducted by Datanalisis returned some interesting findings.
Datanalisis: “Hugo Chávez loses the confidence of 15,1% of the favored Venezuelans”.
Sample: 1300 people
Level of Confidence: 95%
Geographic cover: Capital, Central zone, Center-Western, Eastern, the Level ones, the Andes, Guayana and Zuliana.
This national survey covers from September 23rd to October [...]
October 18, 2009
By: Frioman
What is the White House doing criticizing Fox News while simultaneously displaying favoritism toward CNN? Is this really something the White House should be doing—promoting one business and speaking ill of the other.
Compare the Obama Administration to what the Chavez Administration is doing.
Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to [...]
October 15, 2009
By: Ascanio (Caracas, Venezuela)
The mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, has traveled to Spain to seek support for its management, after President Hugo Chávez took away powers and financial resources in what he describes as a “coup” against the institution he leads .
The SPD politician, who has become the emergent figure of the Venezuelan [...]
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