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Chavez had surgery?
June 30, 2005 ( politics )
...to remove his head from his ass?
Proof part I:
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has launched a regional oil initiative to provide fuel at cheaper prices to 15 Caribbean nations.Mr Chavez announced the Petrocaribe plan at a regional summit in Venezuela's city of Puerto La Cruz.
He said the region had suffered centuries of imperialism and needed to strike out on its own.
(BBC)
And part II:
Telesur is a new pan-Latin American TV channel based in Venezuela. It aims to rival CNN and the other Spanish-language news channels coming out of Miami and Atlanta.Some have already dubbed it Al-Bolivar - a combination of the Arabic news channel, Al-Jazeera, and President Hugo Chavez's favourite independence hero.
'Street-level view'
"It's a question of focus, of where we look at our continent from," says Mr Botero, Telesur's news director from Colombia.
"They look at it from the United States. So they give a rose-tinted, flavour-free version of Latin America. We want to look at it from right here.
"We want our cameras to get into places that their cameras have never been, to give a real, street-level view - like the girl said: 'The true face of Latin America.'"
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Another part of the inspiration comes from Venezuela's community TV movement.
"Don't watch television. Make it" -- Slogan of community station Catia TV
[Iain Bruce] joined Iris, Gladys and Wilfredo, of Catia TV, in a small community hall in the Caracas shanty town of San Juan. They were beginning to recruit and train another of Catia TV's so-called community production teams.
The idea is to give poor communities like this their own say, by teaching ordinary people, from children to pensioners, to make television programmes for themselves.
(BBC
Posted by griffjon at June 30, 2005 06:52 PM
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