Venezuela STARTS an English language newspaper, while newspapers here "downsize,"

[Peace Patriot]

cut staff, lose lots of readers, dry up and blow away.

I think this is rather a remarkable story.

Announcing Venezuela’s First and Only English Language Newspaper, Correo del Orinoco International
Published on January 22nd 2010, by Correo del Orinoco International
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5093

The Editor-in-Chief will be Evo Golinger, one of the very best researchers and investigative reporters on Latin America and US/Latin American policy that I have read. She is topnotch.

From the article:

“'Our most important mission is to combat the massive media manipulation and information blockade against Venezuela and to inform the international community about many incredible events taking place daily inside Venezuela that rarely receive attention from the corporate media', commented Golinger.

"The original Correo del Orinoco was founded by Venezuela’s liberator, Simón Bolívar on June 27, 1818. It served as a principal source of information during the time of independence and the creation of the Venezuelan Republic....

"One hundred ninety one years later, the Correo del Orinoco in Spanish was relaunched as part of the Venezuelan people’s effort to combat corporate media misreporting and disinformation campaigns against the Venezuelan government and the Bolivarian Revolution, nationally and internationally. Today, the Correo del Orinoco is a widely-read and referenced daily paper, reporting on political, social, economic, judicial, cultural and international events of importance to the Venezuelan people, with a balanced and informative tone." (MORE)

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5093

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And now it's going to be published in English. The English language edition has just been launched and will be available to on-line readers outside Venezuela Feb 4. (It will be available in print every Friday in Venezuela.)

Here is the first on-line "trial" edition in English
http://centrodealerta.org/documentos_desclasificados/correo_del_orinoco_internat.pdf

Here is the web site of the Spanish edition (where the English language edition will be available Feb 4)
http://www.elcorreodelorinoco.com/

Here is an interview of Eva Golinger on the overall issue of media/Chavez-Venezuela
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5074

"...they use their media power to control and try to demonize the image of President Chávez. It's much easier to try to remove a president from power or encourage regime change in a country if you can say that that head of state that you wanna overthrow is a terrible person, a demon doing awful things, a dictator. That's part of what this campaign against the person of Hugo Chávez in the international media has really been about. Here, I've been living in Caracas for over five years, and I can tell you this is the furthest thing from any kind of dictatorship. It's also not communism, whatsoever. We are on a path to implementing a new sort of social model that we're calling "socialism of the 21st century" but it's really a combination of capitalism and socialism. We're trying to figure out what works best here in Venezuela...."

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[bemildred]

1. That ought to be interesting. nt

[Flatulo]

2. So this will be a state-run newspaper then?

[EFerrari]

3. It looks like it will be funded much as NEH and NEA grantees

are funded.

[bemildred]

4. LOL.

How dare they have state propaganda organs?
:rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. LOL. I went and looked at the online PDF to see what it said

about management. What I did find was a ref to some culture ministry's funding. :)

[bemildred]

6. Almost like PBS!

Or BBC!

[EFerrari]

7. Fight fire with fire?

Eva does good investigative work but her claims are often a little too loose for me. I have no idea what kind of an editor she will be. We'll find out. I wonder if they're hiring. :)

[bemildred]

10. There is nothing wrong with being an articulate advocate.

That's what I meant by saying it would be interesting, we can see how good they try to be as a news source.

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[Flatulo]

8. Or Pravda!

[bemildred]

9. Or Xinhua!

Or Russia Today!

[Bacchus39]

11. a rather unremarkable story actually, an English newspaper

it sounds just like Venanalysis but based in Venezuela. anyway, English newspapers in Latin America are nothing new. El Universal already has an English online version.

[rabs]

12. There was an English-language newspaper

when I lived in Caracas in mid-1980s. It was called the Daily Journal and was aimed at expats and English-speaking Venezuelas, especially the executive class. At that time it was independent.

Later I heard it had run into rough waters because of labor disputes and running afoul of the pre-Chavez presidents (CAP and others) for its investigate reporting on stuff the governments of that time did not want published.

Don't know if it is still publishing and who is running it now.

ChangoLoa, if you see this fill us in on the status of the Daily Journal (if it still exists).

[Downwinder]

14. If it weren't for the "Daily Worker",

Jackie Robinson probably wouldn't have played in the Major Leagues.