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.
Since the early days of the presidency, the adversarial position of the media, both within Venezuela and abroad, has evolved to become less overt. Reference is no longer made to a 'dictatorship'; it seems that this battle has, for the most part, been lost. Instead, we now see an apparent balance which presents the views of both supporters and opponents...
By Correo del Orinoco International, Sep 11th 2011
This week Telesur welcomed home a news team just back from covering NATO’s war on Libya from that nation’s capital, Tripoli. On arrival at Venezuela’s Maiquetia International Airport, the journalists denounced the ongoing “fabrication of lies” by mainstream media outlets and accused the international press of “producing the arguments needed for a continuation of the war”.
“None of the private media belonging to the large transnational companies has reported on the large scale damage brought about by NATO,” said TeleSUR journalist Rolando Segura at the Thought Artillery vs Lie Factory conference held this week in Caracas.
The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, met with Venezuelan private media companies El Nacional, Globovision, and the Cisneros Group, to discuss their political content.
In this open letter to The Economist, Venezuela's Mario Silva responds to a recently published article that included numerous personal and professional attacks on Silva's work as a leftist political commentator and news analyst.
In this interview excerpt, Eduardo Galeano explains why he has described Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as a “strange dictator”, recounting his own experience as an election observer in Venezuela and describing the political role played by the opposition media in Venezuela.
Nine Latin American countries have taken a further step in promoting regional integration through the formation of 'ULAN' - The Latin American Union of News Agencies. In order to 'give a voice' to Latin America and to reflect the realities of the region, ULAN will provide a 'counterweight' to news featured within the mainstream media.
Refuting claims that Venezuela has been saddled by a clamp down on freedom of expression in recent years, Vice President for the NGO Journalists for the Truth, Jose Gregorio Nieves, challenged corporate media outlets to report the reality of the country during an appearance on the program All Venezuela, broadcast by Venezolana de Television.
By International Media Department - MinCi, Jan 5th 2011
Venezuela's Ministry of Communication and Information provides this valuable Question & Answer (Q & A) brief on Venezuela's new Law on Social Responsibility in Media:
