The Venezuela of Chávez fears writer Vargas Llosa

On 2009/05/29, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by Manuel González Olaechea y Franco.

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by Manuel González Olaechea y Franco.

The presence of prestigious Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has risen concerns in the Venezuela of president Hugo Chávez, famous for his socialist project for the South American nation. Vargas Llosa, one of the most important authors of the Hispanic literature, came to Caracas for the International Congress on Freedom and Democracy organized by the Center of Promulgation of the Economic Knowledge for Freedom (Cedic). The former president of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, is also in the Congress.

Tensions rose already when the Peruvian author arrived to the Maiquetía International Airport and was retained for 90 minutes by the Venezuelan authorities. (more…)

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Freedom of Disagree

On 2009/05/17, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas

By Javier Darío Restrepo
Translated by Albeiro Rodas

Medellín | Published in El Colombiano on 7th May 2009

Although our daily reality, nothing was said about the freedom of disagree last Sunday…

It lacked to proclaim that being in disagreement with a government does not make a person a terrorist, an accomplice of the FARC or an enemy of the president and his most devote followers.

And that the discrepancy of the opponent is looking to the facts and persons from an angle and with other piece of information different to those used to manage by the ones of his party; and warning that to say it is a duty of conscience.

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Debate on journalist dismissal

On 2009/05/16, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas

restrepoJavier Darío Restrepo worked in El Colombiano for 17 years as a columnist of opinion. This is the prestigious daily newspaper of Medellín that was founded in 1912. He was suspended to continue under the argument that the administration was reorganizing the opinion section.

The action became a news in Colombia and opened the debate on the freedom of press. Of course, we have to understand the elements of how many see a threaten in the freedom of press to the Restrepo’s dismissal. At the same time, it shows us how much delicate is to think different in Colombia, an element that threaten the maturity of our democracy in a serious way. (more…)

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Press Fredom for a Colombian celebration

On 2009/02/09, In Conflict, Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Colombia will celebrate the Day of the Journalist today with a record of 130 violations to the Press Fredom, according to Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana.com. The number, however, is inferior of what it was in 2007 in 32 cases. The information is provided by “Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa” (Foundation for the Freedom of Press) that is going to publish a report on the matter this month.

Ronderos said that at least it is possible to say that no journalist was killed in 2008 by reason of his/her profession, as it was in former years. It is said that in the last 30 years, 130 journalists have been assassinated for their work. But the journalist of Semana, the Colombian magazine, underlined there were cases of threats and public officials were the main actors either giving degrading treatment or making obstruction of investigations. Rondero pointed that mayors, councilors and other members of the State, bit or insulted journalists when they published something that was of their dislike. (more…)

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Venezuelan TV channel receives attack

On 2009/01/06, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas

The Minister of Information of Venezuela, Jesse Chacón, condemned the attack with a can of tear gas against Globovisión on the 1rst of January. The channel is one of the main spaces of critic of the government of president Hugo Chávez Frías. Reporters Without Borders declared that the terrorist attack was made by “La Piedrita”, a radical group that sympathizes with the president. (more…)

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