Hugo Chavez: The Blogging President
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced his intent on spreading his ideology worldwide through the blogging. Chavez is also known for imposing socialist “revolution” on national radio and television.
On his weekly TV talk show ‚ÄúAlo Presidente,” he informed his nation that he will counter his ideology detractors through blogging. Pres. Chavez accused his detractors of disseminating lies about his government on their own web pages and Twitter accounts.
The Venezuelan President said: “Maybe I’ll reach millions, not only in Venezuela but in the world,‚Äù
“I am going to dig my own trench on the Internet,” he said, adding that the amount of information he intended to send out of the web would be a “bombardment” against his critics.
If and when the presidential blog is set up, it will add to the near-daily communications Chavez already makes over the airwaves and in print to his country of 27 million people.
The announcement deepened the unease of critics, who are concerned that Chavez’s recent moves to close opposition radio and television stations could broaden to an attempt to crack down on anti-Chavez posts on the Internet.
“Everything on the Internet irritates the regime and makes President Chavez very nervous,” the president of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, Miguel Henrique Otero, told a conference of the Inter-American Press Society on the Caribbean island of Aruba.
“The president is afraid because up to now he has not been able to extend his communication hegemony into cyberspace,” said an opposition lawmaker in the Justice First party, Yon Goicoechea.
Chavez, though, portrayed his blogging foray as a struggle between two economic models.
“All this is a battle between socialism and capitalism,” he said.
“Our Internet — the Bolivarian Internet — has to be an alternative press,” he said.
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I live in country Australia but keep an eye on politics. The south American/Venezuelan questions that are on the net are complex. So I defer to what is known!
Now I walk down my road and I ask my Chilaen neighbours “What do you think of Chavez?” He loves Chavez….She doesn’t talk politics (we all know why…but we smile!!). It is true that only two doors away there is an Argentinian couple, they don’t talk much. (we all know why…and watch the current trials in Argentina.) Remember I am in the bush. Yet 10km away there is a man who won’t stop goning on about Allende and when I listen to him…..Well if that happened in my country there would be no end to what I had to say.
So I live in the middle of nowhere and know why Chavez is who he is and why he is!
I Dare you! Send me one more peoples denied democracy especially if they speak the same language??????