[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 [...]
Role of Psychiatrists in Terrorism
By: jatinder
“Unspeakable acts of terror, torture, and mass murder are not so much the results of individuals who have lost their minds as they are of individuals who have lost their conscience. If, indeed, it turns out that the heinous suicide-attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are traced [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
South Korea and partners in development
An extraordinary example
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
The widening gap between the developed and developing countries has become a central issue of our time.
The attempt to do something about this gap was based on the assumption that economic underdevelopment countries would yield to a determined national effort to change it, with external help [...]
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 [...]
Anecdotes Key To Articles Online
Reader comments can become the news
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
Published 2009-09-22 09:45 (KST)
The average articles in big magazines today are full of anecdotes. By anecdotes, I mean any specific, short, significant story or incident.
There are, of course, exceptional articles which follow no rule. But the average story is divided into four elements.
FIRST: the [...]
Twitter Is Politics In Venezuela | 
Hugo Chávez's currency devaluation ploy won't work | 
Role of Psychiatrists in Terrorism | 
War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics | 
The election for president : Uruguay and Honduras | 
Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela | 
Hugo Chavez popularity declining | 
SOUTH KOREA and partners in development | 
Hugo Chavez - Orchestrates Coup against Caracas local government | 
Anecdotes Key To Articles Online | 
