RCTV One Year Later
Hard to believe that it has been a year since hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Venezuela to protest President Hugo Chavez, his so-called socialist reforms and his shutdown of RCTV.
In the year since, Globovision ha been threatened for shutdown and I am told maneuvers are being made in Caracas that might give Venezuelan leaders the authority to create the same fate as RCTV, basically pulling their license to broadcast.
In fact, Venezuelan leaders have been railing on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States (OAS). Apparently, 44 journalists, cameramen and directors of the private channel have been harassed in the name of “fact finders”.
Of course Chavez and his supporters claim the court is partial. This all comes as the ties between Chavez and FARC have been alleged and evidence has been presented and even on this blog Chavez apologists have attacked the truth in favor of the hardline propaganda that comes from this highly controversial leader. we made a return trip a few months back, only to see a once strong country show signs of serious ills.
Trash stacked in once proud neighborhoods, professionals leaving the country with their families and police officers from various forces vowing they wont give up their guns without a fight. This summer some of these police officers have been told they will lose their jobs in favor of a new Venezuelan National Police Force controlled by who else, but Chavez himself.
As for RCTV Chavez’s shutdown backfired. The Venezuelan mainstay was back on the airwaves as of July 16, 2007, broadcasting on cable and satellite systems under the name Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional. The government did take property and equipment from RCTV, including antennas, transmitters and cameras, to use it in a new government owned channel. In the last 10 months since being back on the air, RCTV has become the most watched channel in Venezuela (despite being on cable). 30% of homes have cable in the country. This picture is outside Globovision as Chavez protestors marched to the site to support the station’s right to broadcast freely.
Adam Housley has been with FNC since 2001 as a Los Angeles-based
correspondent. He has covered news ranging from wildfires in California
to political unrest in Venezuela and was one of the few reporters who
witnessed the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams. 
I didn’t know it was back on the air. Good thing i think.
It doesn’t seem like so long, but i guess it must be.
I remember it was the first time i knew about Adam.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359589,00.html
soooooooooooooooooooooooo true……. i for one never took spanish in school but understand it and can talk it decently…… its slightly better since my moms parents came from cuba and speak spanish but thats besides the point…… you cant get anywhere without spanish professionally as well…..
No is not open again, the government stole everything, cameras studios equipment ,all.
for a new T ves. that nobody sees.
The march of the students was huge.
Do not forget Venezuela and more than 30 political prisoners, and tortured.
Just like Fox…the most watched cable channel!
“…the most watched cable channel!”
And who might be doing the watching?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359921,00.html
key point: All intelligence and counter-intelligence in Venezuela now concentrated under the control of the Interior Ministry — and that means in the hands of one Ramon Rodriguez Chacin.
did foreign networks help them get back on their feet?
Avi wrote
did foreign networks help them get back on their feet?
nope, CNN could care less, they want a communist for president in the USA. biased very biased.
Not getting any help from Amnesty International’s 2008 Report on Human Rights, either. It just came out on the 28th, and *nearly* gives the Chavez regime a free pass:
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/regions/americas/venezuela
“…want a communist for president ”
You know, nothing cures that misapprehension faster than actually living in a country where the communists took over.
caveat: I know of lots of rich countries that have survived what happens when Communist parties dominate the parliament for a time. That wasn’t pretty, but it wasn’t what I am talking about. I am talking about *taking over*, and the best recent example is the Venezuelan legislature granting dictatorial authority to President Chavez.
I am glad to see some people fleeing it may be their last chance for true freedom if this continues.
EVERYONE-
I know there are no comment boxes under some of the older threads. I will work on getting that changed. Remember they are transferring everything over to ‘On the Scene’ so still some work to do.
Adam
Steven Spielberg y George Lucas, No clue About South American History, the Indiana jones offends all south America, languages in the movie are spoken where they were never used, and move piramids from Yucatan to Peru, a total mess. In Perú people are furious.
I will not fill his pockets with dollars, I won’t see it.
do research first.
Película de Indiana Jones genera malestar en Perú por sus imprecisiones
(ARCHIVO) Imagen de archivo difundida el 22 de junio de 2007 que muestra al actor estadounidense Harrison Ford en el set de grabación de la nueva cinta “Indiana Jones”.
La última aventura del héroe de culto Indiana Jones, que bate récords de taquilla en el mundo, generó malestar en Perú -donde se ambienta la película- debido a errores tan burdos como que el mexicano Pancho Villa enseñaba el quechua, el idioma de los incas.
Los espectadores que acuden a ver ‘Indiana Jones y el reino de la calavera de cristal’ se sorprenden cuando en la película se dice que Pancho Villa, el héroe de la revolución mexicana, y sus amigos hablaban quechua, el idioma de los antiguos peruanos.
“Eso es una barbaridad”, declaró Hugo Neyra, director de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú.
A la salida de las salas, los cinéfilos peruanos expresan su incomodidad ante el hecho de que la música que acompaña a las aventuras, ambientadas en Perú, del arqueólogo Indiana Jones está conformada por rancheras, típicas de México.
A ello se agrega que hay guerreros mayas que hablan quechua en la selva peruana, región supuestamente plagada de arenas movedizas, con insaciables hormigas que devoran a humanos, y enormes cataratas que en realidad se encuentran en Hawai.
Aunque quizá uno de los mayores errores de la cinta consiste en que sitúa la pirámide de Chichen Itzá -ubicada en México- en medio de la amazonía peruana.
El historiador Manuel Burga, ex rector de la Universidad de San Marcos -la más antigua de América-, comentó que aunque se trate de una película de ficción a los creadores del personaje del látigo, Steven Spielberg y George Lucas, les faltó asesoramiento.
“Hay muchos datos incorrectos, aunque se trate de una ficción. Eso va a ser perjudicial para mucha gente que no conoce nuestro país, pues muestra un escenario peruano que no es real. No es posible que se confunda la Amazonía con la selva de Yucatán en México”, se quejó Burga.
“Debió haber especialistas que investigaran previamente antes de elaborar el guión”, sentenció el historiador.
Neyra hizo notar, por su parte, que muchos estadounidenses y europeos medianamente informados se darán cuenta de que es “una aberración” mezclar las culturas maya e inca. “Ellos saben que Machu Picchu está en Cusco y que Chichen Itzá (está) en México”, refirió.
Teodoro Hampe, historiador, estimó que en la mente del estadounidense común hay un esquema según el cual todo lo que está más allá de sus fronteras hacia el sur, a partir de México, es lo mismo. “Para ellos les da igual, es lo mismo México, Guatemala, Bolivia o Perú”, acotó.
Otra de las incongruencias de la cuarta película de Indiana Jones es la ubicación de la ciudad de Nasca, en la costa sur de Perú, que la película sitúa en el Cusco, en medio de los Andes del sur peruano.
Los comentarios critican también que la trama incide en un prejuicio difundido en el exterior y rechazado por la comunidad científica internacional según el cual la civilización andina es producto de la visita de extraterrestres.
En esa línea casi al final del film emerge desde las profundidades de un palacio de oro un platillo volador.
El mensaje subliminal parece ser que los logros de las civilizaciones surgidas en América Latina son producto de fuerzas sobrenaturales y no de la capacidad de sus propios habitantes.
That’s why every fiction movie or show has a disclaimer stating that any names of people and places used in the script are purely coincidental………or something to that effect. Indian Jones is fiction made for entertainment purposes only……….if it was supposed to be a documentary than the people would have a good argument to be upset, IMO.
Adam – thanks for the acknowledgement of my win. May I gloat and point out that I got it on MY first guess and it was the 4th entry on that blog. I think that since it applies to grapes/wine the winner of the POD should get a bottle of your wine. Please don’t drop it in the street! lol
I’m torn in my feelings on this issue. It’s sad to see people fleeing and not fighting for the freedom in their own country while a dictator grows more powerful but on the other hand I understand why they run…FREEDOM.
Oh FL rub it in!
Alfredo,
Thank God Lucas and Spielberg got the locations correct in “Close Encounters”, and “Star Trek”
Anyone speak Wookie?
Dog
Kathy –
well, I’m sure it’ll be the only one I ever get right so….yes, I just had to. lol
FL yall will never hear the end of it if I am ever right! I have to go feed Big Wig Bunny, I want him happy!
Man oh man! I went over to check out Tobin’s blog and checked out his insert on “Making rockets”., Talk about sleeping withthe enemy. The feed back was so bad that he turned off the ability to write comments. I wonder if Tobin will go to Pakistan and exchange recipes with Bin Ladin. (I joke, Im a kidder).
Fl well done for getting it so fast.
socalsurfer, that maybe the problem that Adam talked about in a comment on here
Comment by Adam Housley
oops i forgot to close the quote.
socal surfer- are you going to post a picture of you and Adam? surely you took one!!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360361,00.html
off topic but fascinating, over 100 “uncontacted” tribes in the world?
who says they don’t want to be contacted? This feels alot like “the truman show”.
I have an idea, how about we round up all of the scientist that want to leave these people “untouched” and put them on an island, they can start their own society, I am sure that it will be rough at first but by the time their 3rd or 4th generation rolls around, they will have their own “untouched” society.
All I know is if I spent my life, wiping my arse with a pine cone, then somebody pops out of the jungle and says “hey, we have been studying you for years, here give this charmin a try”
Well, I think i would give them their very own lesson on the comforts of using a pine cone for TP, or something like that.
Max… how’d you do that????????????????????????????????
Don’t clean those parakeet cages just yet………
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.html?_r=1&partner=BREITBART&ei=5123&oref=slogin
I just know that the day is coming that we”l be able to fuel our cars with turds. If that fruit comes to bear, then those of us in the Washington DC area will become the new “energy czars” of the free world………….We’ve got the largest inventory of turds the the world and we safely store them in a lovely domed facility called “The Hill”
Adam, your (Fox’s) new blog setup is usually not too friendly with our company computer’s WebSense filters……..sometimes it thinks the blog is streaming video and blocks it from being viewed. So I’m not ignoring you guys…..it’s just hard to get through sometimes
off-topic plug for C. Herridge’s latest ‘blog post in this (super-)forum.
Very worth the read/look.
http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/30/changing-iraq-one-picture-at-a-time/
LDG
Lets hope a picture can paint a thousand words and make a difference
Thanks for the link
wish I had more on-topic, but it seems Hugo-a-go-go has avoided commiting any further acts beyond-the-pale so far… today…
be back shortly.
((goes off to read lots of obscure Venezuela sources for a little while))
((calls back to KC))
Let us hope so. Most welcome.
LDG,
excellent link
Hugo is too busy counting his oil profits that he’s accumulated with the latest oil market situations. One way to keep a dictator quiet (although not financialy feasible) is to throw money at them.
john,
yes you can throw money at them, I would prefer to throw one well placed shot at him…..50 cal, straight shot, he drops before he ever hears the sound, let alone my whisper of “duck”
Ok, got a couple things related, but not quite on-topic
@John
He might not be counting them for very long, at least not using such big numbers:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/29/america/NA-FIN-US-Oil-Markets-Investigation.php
key point: Investigators have been looking into manipulation of the Oil futures market since the beginning of the year.
–more–
and it does seem that more Iran-Venezuela scheming is afoot:
http://www.world-check.com/articles/2008/05/30/iran-seeks-buy-another-venezuelan-bank/
Key point: Iran has already bought into one JV bank in Venezuela, and has been trying to get control of one or more established banks with international assets.
Caveat: this item is still blind-sourced only, not confirmed, as acknowleged by the analyst.
If anything good is coming out of the US present economic woes is that more and more corporations are being investigated for illegal business practices. From oil company execs to real estate brokers, I think the public is fed up with certain individuals manipulating the markets for personal greed. Free market enterprise is one thing, but to take advantage of individuals for ones own personal gain is immoral, and usually illegal. I think in the next few years you’ll see the populations at the “country club” prisons (those for white collar crimes) increase substantially.
second try at posting, link now disabled. my regrets if it is a doublepost
had this from yesterday:
h ttp://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2008/05/farc-with-venezuelan-uniforms.html
Key point: some issues about the FARC video announcing Marulanda’s death.
Caveat: Daniel is a political ‘blogger, with an agenda.
And here’s more on the Iran-Venezuela Banking Connection:
http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/356/iran-moving-banking-operations-to-venezuela.com
key point: “…is of particular concern because it gives the two leaders a way to move funds, with virtually no accounting, to wherever they want. Additionally, according to El Nacional, a leading Venezuelan newspaper, the directors and chief officers of the bank in Venezuela immunity from prosecution for any legal or administrative charges. This means that if an Iranian official commits a crime in Venezuela, he cannot be tried for.”
and to finish the open-source circle for now, one more from the AP, via the International Herald Tribune:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/30/business/LA-FIN-Venezuela-Petroleum.php
Key points: what Venezuela’s State Oil Company says it is producing and what others see it ship don’t add up (old news, but worth repeating); Refined petroleum imports to Venezuela skyrocketed in the first quarter this year, implying in-country refining capacity is collapsing.
LDG………..that’s my thinking too. It allows them to freely transfer money from one country to the other without much of a trace of it happening. Sadam did the same thing thing while he was in charge of Iraq.
If I was the Venezualans I’d keep a sharp eye out…………Hugo may just be setting up his “retirement account”.
@John
Two-way risk:
small risk: Chavez and Co. might slip (more) money out — like where did the Venezuelan national treasury gold reserve go, anyway?
BIG risk: Iran gets a network of banks that aren’t about to be added to the list of embargoed Iranian banks over the whole Iran-nuclear-dreams issue. Sure helps in hiding the funding of Pasdaran (IRGC) assets in Venezuela and Nicaragua, too.
LDG……..interesting. Couple these questionable money transfers with the unaccounted for flights with unaccounted for passengers between Tehran and Caracas lately, it wouldn’t surpise me one bit if Hugo all of suddenly claims on the international scene that they are going to build a nuclear powerplant in Venezuala with Iran’s help.
@John
((nodnod))
I wouldn’t say “powerplant”, but yes we are on the same line of thought.
SUPPER OFF TOPIC
Ive been hearing lately of fox and other places that Obama says he didnt vote for the War in Iraq but the truth is he wasnt even a sentor when the voting took place so how could he say such a thing or am i wrong? :S
@Avi
re: SUP(P)ER OFF TOPIC
He wasn’t there for the authorization vote.
Obama was sworn in as a senator on January 4, 2005. — source: Obama’s U.S. Senate Office
On October 2, 2002, the day Bush and Congress agreed on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, Obama addressed the first high-profile Chicago anti-Iraq War rally in Federal Plaza, speaking out against it. — sources: Chicago Defender; Chicago Tribune
(link disabled)
h ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
caveat: usual wiki-p warning goes here.
LDG,
Fox allows people to talk like he voted agianst it……. and somtimes they say he voted agianst it……
this issue needs to be raised …. he didnt vote for or agianst…..
Avi: well it’s not a lie, unless he sayus he voted against it.
Terri ~ Las Vegas
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@Avi
Agreed. Anyone who trots out that canard should be called to task on it.
oops
just ‘blockquote’ in pointy brackets. look under the comment box.
Once when i was bored i played with the HTML that you can find under the comment box
Ok, one more Venezuela item before I go:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=amySl2rArbTQ&refer=latin_america
hat tip: Brian Faughnan for spotting this item (link disabled)
h ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/venezuelas_collapsing_oil_econ.asp
Bloomberg: Key point: discusses in fairly simple terms the factions in the political parties, pro- and anti-, and comments on goals for the opposition in upcoming elections.
Faughnan: Key points: collapse of the Venezuelan Oil industry; example of why nationalizing Oil companies is a bad idea.
And with that, be well and safe All.
((departs for the day))
test post
third try at posting, all links disabled
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Ok, one more Venezuela item before I go:
h ttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=amySl2rArbTQ&refer=latin_america
hat tip: Brian Faughnan for spotting this item (link disabled)
h ttp://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/venezuelas_collapsing_oil_econ.asp
Bloomberg: Key point: discusses in fairly simple terms the factions in the political parties, pro- and anti-, and comments on goals for the opposition in upcoming elections.
Faughnan: Key points: collapse of the Venezuelan Oil industry; example of why nationalizing Oil companies is a bad idea.
And with that, be well and safe All.
((departs for the day))
ok… so what is wrong…
posting this in pieces to try and get through. All links very disabled:
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Ok, one more Venezuela item before I go:
h ttp://w ww.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=amySl2rArbTQ&refer=latin_america
hat tip: Brian Faughnan for spotting this item (link disabled)
h ttp://w ww.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/venezuelas_collapsing_oil_econ.asp
–more–
ok… so what is wrong…
posting this in pieces to try and get through. All links very disabled:
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Ok, one more Venezuela item before I go:
h ttp://w ww.b loomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=amySl2rArbTQ&refer=latin_america
hat tip: Brian Faughnan for spotting this item
h ttp://w ww.w eeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/venezuelas_collapsing_oil_econ.asp
Bloomberg: Key point: discusses in fairly simple terms the factions in the political parties, pro- and anti-, and comments on goals for the opposition in upcoming elections.
Faughnan: Key points: collapse of the Venezuelan Oil industry; example of why nationalizing Oil companies is a bad idea.
And with that, be well and safe All.
((departs for the day))
ok… this just isn’t posting, 6 tries, no matter how I cut up the links…
…so just look in Bloomberg today for a story about Venezuela’s political parties…
…and I am out for the day.
((departs))
Can someone get rid of Chavez? Or do I have to do it?
HMMMM?
LDG-
I bet your thermometer went up!
xxxxx
@Susan-AZ
“I bet…”
((grin))