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Analysis: Opposition

Rather’s False Reporting on Venezuela & President Hugo Chavez

By Eva Golinger, Jun 1st 2012

President Hugo Chavez looking well just a few days ago (nuevodiario)

Since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was diagnosed with cancer and a malignant tumor was removed from his pelvic region last June, all kinds of rumors, lies and speculations have circulated about his health...

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Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Attacks Venezuela

By Correo del Orinoco International , May 28th 2012

Ex-President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe (panoramadiario.com)

Seeking notoriety as an international spokesman for Venezuela’s anti-Chavez sector, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe issued baseless and malicious claims in international media aimed at isolating the Venezuelan government.

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Media & Opposition: False Perceptions of Venezuela’s Democracy

By Rachael Boothroyd - Correo del Orinoco International , May 25th 2012

Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro health program provides free healthcare to Venezuela’s poor, and free, community based training f

Earlier this week Al Jazeera English published an article by Nikolas Kozloff. The focus of Kozloff’s latest article was the Cuban-Venezuelan “Barrio Adentro” initiative, a social mission which provides free healthcare to Venezuela’s poor, and free, community based training for Venezuelan medical students.

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Venezuelan Opposition Promises “Renewal” for Venezuela-Israel Relations

By Correo del Orinoco International, May 21st 2012

Primer Ministro Benjamín Nentayahu (left) with Antonio Ledezma (agencies).

Over the weekend, Venezuela’s anti-Chavez minority confirmed reports that one of their own recently met with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and promised to re-establish ties with Israel if the opposition is somehow successful in this year’s presidential election. 

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Judge and be Judged

By Luis Britto Garcia - Correo del Orinoco International, May 11th 2012

Luis Britto Garcia (questiondigital.com)

Acclaimed author and intellectual Luis Britto Garcia provides a critical look at international attempts to discredit the Venezuelan judiciary.

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Chavez in 2012

By Stetephen Lendman - Correo del Orinoco International , May 4th 2012

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (Chavez.org).

After 12 years in office, Chavez remains overwhelmingly favored for reelection in October. Given the alternative, most Venezuelans have a clear choice.

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Reflections by Fidel Castro: A Mistake by Obama Could Cause Rivers of Blood in Venezuela

By Fidel Castro Ruz, Apr 30th 2012

(Radiocadenaagramonte)

Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, talks about Hugo Chavez, the opposition's attempts to slander the Venezuelan president and what he decribes as a "concerning" attitude from Washington with regards to the South American nation.

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Capriles, Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Systemic Violence: Understanding the Venezuelan Elections

By Rachael Boothroyd, Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 5th 2012

Anti-Chavez Venezuelan media quickly latched onto the Western media line about a state campaign of “persecution” against opp

With the Venezuelan elections now looming, and with Chavez’s approval ratings stubbornly hovering around the 57% mark, it would seem that the international media has stepped up its “disinformation” campaign against the Bolivarian revolution with renewed urgency, producing the kind of biased, baseless and manipulative stories about the “persecution” of opposition presidential candidate, Capriles Radonski, that have been filling the corporate press’ Latin American correspondence pages for weeks.

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Capriles and Chavez Neck and Neck, and Pigs Might Fly, or Conduct a Poll

By Rachael Boothroyd - Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 3rd 2012

Picture caption: Polls: “From here I see a technical draw”

According to Latin American polling companies such as Datanalisis and Consultores 21, this year’s presidential elections in Venezuela will be a close-knit affair, and opposition candidate Capriles Radonski has decided he believes them, despite others polls giving Chavez 30% more of the vote. Venezuelanalysis.com argues that this could be part of the opposition's strategy.

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African Descendents and Racism in Venezuelan Private Media

By Ciudad Caracas : Interview with Modesto Ruiz, Mar 28th 2012

This interview examines the extent and ways that Venezuela is still affected by racism following the publication of a racist cartoon by a private newspaper.

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Chilean Consul’s Daughter Killed in Venezuela: Bell Tolls for the Opposition

By Rachael Boothroyd - Venezuelanalysis.com, Mar 20th 2012

On Saturday evening it was reported that Karen Berendique, daughter of the Chilean Consul in Venezuela was killed and shot by police.  This act of police brutality and malpractice highlights more than ever the need for a humanistic police force with respect for human rights throughout the country.

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Venezuelan Rightwing “Crazy”: Refuses to Recognise the Protagonistic Role of Women in this Revolution

By Lucía Berbeo - CLARIN, Mar 19th 2012

Argentinean activist, Hebe de Bonafini (Larazon.com.ar)

“We’re telling the opposition that they are crazy, they haven’t reviewed the figures on the protagonistic role of women, and they haven’t even done their homework in order to be able follow up this line of argument. Women are more present than ever in Hugo Chavez’s government. Furthermore, our Comandante has said that women are at the vanguard, without their participation, there will be no socialist revolution”.

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Venezuela: Changes, Everything Changes? Nothing Changes

By Aram Aharonian - Rebelion, Mar 11th 2012

Changes, everything changes. The main problem for those in charge of official state communications is the fact that the landscape is no longer the same. Right now, everyone is waiting anxiously for the results of President Hugo Chavez’s operation; whilst the opposition currently has a leader backed by a political and strategic apparatus and is arming its electoral machinery. The polls currently show that Chavez is beating his rival significantly, but... speculations are riding high again...

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NYT Meets Venezuelan Opposition, and Smiles

By Gregory Wilpert - NY Times Examiner, Feb 21st 2012

El Sistema (agencies).

It would seem that the New York Times has run out of substantive issues with which to present Venezuela in a negative light and has now decided to focus instead on a rather silly effort to tarnish Venezuela’s world-renown and highly acclaimed classical music education program known as “El Sistema”.

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US Ambassadors to Venezuela: A Chronology of Failure

By Nil Nikandrov - Strategic Culture Foundation , Feb 18th 2012

The US seal (Worthpoint).

During his 13-year-long presidency Hugo Chavez had to deal with five US ambassadors and numerous charge d'affaires. The history of relations between them and the Venezuelan leader shows how successfully one can oppose a policy of blackmail, conspiracy, overturns and 'orange revolutions'.

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