May 5, 2008

In Venezuela, it's not so bad living under a bridge

by Quico

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El Universal in English: Not very well translated news from EUD.

Google News: Top Venezuela stories.

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Miami Herald: Venezuela Page.

Financial Times: Americas Page

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page

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Francisco Rodríguez @ Wesleyan: Top resource for economic research into the impact of the Chávez era

Organization of American States: Venezuela Page

Venezuela Information Office: Our tax-bolivars at work - government-run pro-Chávez blog aimed at the US

Venezuelanalysis.com: Most sophisticated pro-Chávez site.

Links in Spanish

Noticiero Digital: News and opinion digest, together with extremist oppo bulletin board.

Noticias 24: Same idea as Noticiero Digital, with nicer web design.

TalCual: Newspaper edited by the legendary Teodoro Petkoff. Subscription required and worth it.

El Universal: "Serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded.

El Nacional: The other "serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded.

Globovision: Opposition run 24 hour news station. Text news free, Windows Media Video by subscription.

Union Radio Noticas: News portal and streaming audio.

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Ultimas Noticias: Tabloid edited by Eleazar Díaz Rangel. Chávez-friendly. Subscription.

Descifrado: Opposition gossip site. Some items free, others by subscription.

El Chigüire Bipolar: Closest thing Venezuela has to The Onion. Very silly. And hysterical.

Notiven: News digest + links to dozens of Venezuelan newspapers.

ODH Grupo Consultor: News monitoring and economic analysis for the masses.

Urru.org: Massive oppo archive.

E-lecciones: Fascinating selection of polling power points, international observer reports, and other election related stuff.

Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias State news agency: all chavista propaganda all the time.

Aporrea.org: Website of the Asamblea Popular Revolucionaria. Militant pro-Chávez site, occasionally critical of the government.

VTV - Canal Ocho: State TV. Hardcore propaganda. Live WindowsMedia work only sometimes.

Panorama: Maracaibo newspaper, privately owned but aggressively pro-Chávez.

teleSUR: Hemispheric arm of the chavista propaganda machine.

Queremos Elegir: Venezuela's original citizen-participation NGO.

Viejas Fotos Actuales: Fun archive of historical pictures, films and audio recordings.

Provea: One of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs.

Cofavic: The other one of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs.

Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page

Central Bank of Venezuela: Good starting point for economic and monetary data.

Finance Ministry: data.

El Librito Azul: Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - 1999.

Frontline on Chávez

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Venezuela 2003 - Spanish with English Subtitles. Produced by Francisco Toro, Directed by Megan Folsom.

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