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Carter Center Report on the Venezuelan Recall Referendum
August 22, 2004 ... on balloting day, with thousands of voters waiting long hours for the opportunity to cast their ballot. Given the ... cuadernos. The CNE auditors and the observers worked long hours in a careful and detailed way to count the paper ... people are to be commended for standing in line for hours without incidents in this demonstration of civic ... -
Community Radio, Dancing Grandmothers, and Music: A Typical Venezuelan Barrio
November 30, 2004 ... politicians. On working days we are broadcasting twelve hours a day; during the weekend we are on air for 24 hours. We’re producing about 60 programs per week. Through ... allowed to sell five minutes of each broadcasting hours for advertisements. Usually, these minutes are filled ... -
Inside The Barrio: Venezuelan Health Care Takes Off
August 5, 2004 Thousands waited in line for hours in the burning afternoon sun outside Caracas’ main ... from Coche, a Caracas suburb, had been waiting 5 hours for the beginning of the Barrio Adentro event. Sojo ... -
Venezuela Election Trip Report
August 21, 2004 ... our group then met with President Chavez for about two hours. He appeared quite confident but pledged to resign ... statement. He promised to do so. Finally, after three hours, we offered to the still irate opposition leaders our ... -
Venezuela: Divisions Harden after Chávez Victory
September 8, 2004 ... lines stretching a mile long and people waiting up to 11 hours to cast their ballots. But the referendum has not ... quickly by cell phone during the afternoon. Then, four hours before polls finally closed around midnight, New ... hard-working leader (he sleeps as little as three or four hours a night and works seven days a week). Matos adds that ... -
A Challenge to Keep on Dreaming in Venezuela
June 24, 2004 A group responding to Chavez's desire to see the opposition's plans for a better Venezuela, fails to see in the opposition the same mistakes they accuse Chavez of making -
Deepening the Bolivarian Revolution
August 26, 2004 ... camped outside of schools and public buildings, waiting hours to cast their vote in a referendum to decide not only ... participation rate reached 73% despite waits of up to 14 hours in many locations, going against recent trends all over ... -
From Media War to Armed Struggle in Venezuela?
June 17, 2004 ... of businessman Pedro Carmona to power for less than 47 hours, in a surgical operation supported and financed from ... -
The Venezuelan “Disappeared” of the 21st Century
March 15, 2004 ... Security Council should not be surprised, since merely two hours following the monstrous massacre in Madrid and barely ... -
What Venezuela's Opposition Does Not Understand
August 27, 2004 ... stands, carry off their merchandise and jail them for 48 hours. While waiting for Chavez to vote on August 15, I heard ... -
In Venezuela, Words Spread Far and Wide
June 14, 2004 Until Mission Robinson, the education drive that the government claims will virtually eradicate illiteracy nationwide by the end of June, many indigenous communities were deprived of more than knowledge. -
International Press Coverage Begins to Change Its Tune on Venezuela
August 20, 2004 ... and after the short-lived coup in April 2002, reversed 48-hours later by massive popular mobilization. Venezuela’s ... the Carter Center and OAS clear supportive declaration 10 hours later one thing has become excruciatingly clear in ... -
Chavez Forces Set to Win Regional Vote in Venezuela
October 31, 2004 ... 6-14 hour average of the referendum, to approximately 1-2 hours, with the exception of certain voting centers ... -
A Case Study of Media Concentration and Power in Venezuela
September 25, 2004 ... regulations governing children's programming and viewing hours, as well as guidelines for the broadcasts of political ... subject to a massive Chávez-aversion therapy program, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, month after month, ad ... show that Venezuelan children watch an average of five hours per day of television. Print media are similarly ... -
Living the Utopia
February 18, 2004 ... others) and of having rescued democracy in less than 48 hours, without resorting to violence? In what other place in ...