Venezuela

Note: I just received this from a yahoo group mailing list I am on. Don't know if there is any other info on it/confirmations for it/resources etc...so if anyone knows anything or has any links to more info please post it.

BREAKING NEWS: "Internal" coup d'etat under preparation in
Venezuela to remove President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias from
office "within the next days"

I recently filmed a short video about 10 minutes long on the reaction from the Venezuelan-American Diaspora in Miami. The short documentary was shot on 12-2-07 in Miami which is home to the largest Venezuelan American population in the country. The film is in both English and Spanish and includes both Pro & Anti-Referendum supporters.

by David Edwards; June 14, 2007 Published on ZNet
As we have previously reported* Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has long been demonised by the Western media as a "leftist firebrand" (The Independent), "Venezuela's demagogue" (Washington Post), and as a "militaristic strongman" (Financial Times).

By Harnecker, June 06, 2007, Published on ZNet

In the mid 70s the non aligned countries demanded a New World Information and Economic Order. Some time later, this decision led the United States to withdraw from UNESCO. For many decades only five or so monopolies controlled flows of information. It is only now that the demand to understand information as a human right and to democratize access to the media is being seen as a necessary requirement for building systems that are really democratic. The existence of media like Telesur or Al Jazeera, the proliferation of community radio and television stations, the expansion of computer networks and free software and the efforts states are making to take back control of their airwaves are all part of this effort to democratize the airwaves.