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		<title>GLOBOVISION: THE LOOSE CANNON OF VENEZUELAN MEDIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their classic 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated how corporate media select topics, place emphasis, set boundaries, ask questions and shape content in accordance with broad capitalist imperatives. It&#8217;s a largely unconscious process driven by conformist human beings, and infinitely more effective than the heavy-handed methods of past communist regimes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2223&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE LIBERATION OF VENEZUELA&#8217;S REVOLUTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[T]his vote was about the specific issue of term limits, and that made it significantly harder for the Si side to win. Quite a few people support Chavez as President but nevertheless believe that term limits are a good idea, whereas on the opposition side (which has no indefinitely re-electable charismatic leader) there was complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2197&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIALISM IN VZLA NOW OVER A CRUCIAL HURDLE</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/socialism-in-vzla-now-over-a-crucial-hurdle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It could have been better. But it could have been infinitely worse. This Sunday, just over six million voters established themselves as the most solid base of democratic support ever witnessed for Venezuela&#8217;s socialist project. Meanwhile, just over five million Venezuelan voters established themselves as the proportion of the electorate which does not fully understand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2191&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE EVE OF A MASSIVE VOTE</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/the-eve-of-a-massive-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting here with a cold beer from the store down at the bottom of my apartment block (the &#8220;Dry Law&#8221; obviously being flouted just as subtly as the state ignores certain campaign laws), the ambience around is pretty normal. Thursday&#8217;s gran finale for the Chavistas almost certainly wasn&#8217;t as big as 2006, but a handful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2186&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THOUGHTS ON THE REVOLUTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After just over a week getting reacquainted with Caracas, here are some thoughts. 1. Campaigning in the street: the PSUV and other pro-revolution groups are all over the goddam place. The opposition are nowhere. Despite that campaigning can be as cheap as you choose, the oppos either don&#8217;t have the manpower, or the willingness to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2180&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED, CHAVEZ CULPABLE?</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/synagogue-attacked-chavez-culpable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m staying temporarily with some people who are generally inclined to believe that the defacing of at least one Venezuelan synagogue (that I&#8217;ve seen) and today&#8217;s news that another has been forcibly entered and vandalised, mean that Chavez should not have thrown out the Israeli ambassador. Perhaps he should not even have uttered a negative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2170&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TWO WORKERS KILLED DEFENDING FACTORY</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/two-workers-killed-defending-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have already read in the sidebar that 863 workers in the Mitsubishi plant in Anzoategui state voted to occupy the factory premises and reinstate 135 subcontractors that had recently been laid off. It was an overwhelming vote in solidarity with the subcontractors, in which only 25 voted against the occupation, or abstained. From [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2162&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REPORTING FROM CARACAS!</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/reporting-from-caracas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your humble correspondent has arrived in the capital city with just over two weeks to go before the big hullabalooza: a likely &#8216;SI&#8217; victory, probably with close to 60% of the vote, which would permit Chavez to be postulated by his party (the PSUV) for reelection in 2012. Today the PSUV and the FMS, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2160&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE CASE FOR &#8216;SI&#8217;, PART TWO</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/the-case-for-si-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition are right about one thing: if Chavez&#8217;s goal was to become a dictator, it would be necessary to remove term limits. But supporters of the revolution are equally right on another point: if Chavez’s goal is indeed to transform Venezuela into a world power, and construct the purest form of democracy ever seen, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2142&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE CASE FOR &#8216;SI&#8217;, PART ONE</title>
		<link>http://vencentral.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/the-case-for-si-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be ridiculous to oppose eliminating term limits if you were in a minority of one (i.e. if there was 99.9% national consensus). That would be an outright repudiation of democracy itself, in addition to a repudiation of additional democratic rights. The novel aspect of this upcoming referendum is its dual-democratic aspect: a free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vencentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2929543&amp;post=2134&amp;subd=vencentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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