http://www.hispanictips.com Essential Hispanic & Latino News :: Relevant, Trusted, Comprehensive and Useful Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/23/venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-is-inviting-his-mentor-fidel-castro-to-visit-venezuela-during-the-coming-months/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/23/venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-is-inviting-his-mentor-fidel-castro-to-visit-venezuela-during-the-coming-months/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:24:10 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=68258 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=68258 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/11/10/chavezs-next-target-el-salvador-twenty-first-century-socialism-may-have-stumbled-in-honduras-but-it-is-being-tried-again-in-el-salvador/ 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http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/18/former-presidents-from-peru-and-bolivia-joined-newspaper-editors-from-across-the-americas-on-friday-in-condemning-what-they-call-a-series-of-attempts-by-venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-and-some-of-h/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/18/former-presidents-from-peru-and-bolivia-joined-newspaper-editors-from-across-the-americas-on-friday-in-condemning-what-they-call-a-series-of-attempts-by-venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-and-some-of-h/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:16:34 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/18/former-presidents-from-peru-and-bolivia-joined-newspaper-editors-from-across-the-americas-on-friday-in-condemning-what-they-call-a-series-of-attempts-by-venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-and-some-of-h/ HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=61577 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/07/hugo-chavez-pictures-in-venice-with-oliver-stone-photos/ 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http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/06/venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-who-is-the-subject-of-oliver-stones-next-film-said-he-is-considering-coming-to-venice-for-the-documentarys-premiere-according-to-italian-media/ HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=60311 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/06/tens-of-thousands-marched-through-venezuelas-capital-on-saturday-to-protest-what-they-call-growing-authoritarianism-by-president-hugo-chavez/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/06/tens-of-thousands-marched-through-venezuelas-capital-on-saturday-to-protest-what-they-call-growing-authoritarianism-by-president-hugo-chavez/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:41:36 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=60303 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=60303 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/03/in-his-new-documentary-south-of-the-border-oliver-stone-is-shown-warmly-embracing-hugo-chavez-nibbling-coca-leaves-with-evo-morales-and-gently-teasing-cristina-elizabeth-fernandez-de-kirchner-ab/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/09/03/in-his-new-documentary-south-of-the-border-oliver-stone-is-shown-warmly-embracing-hugo-chavez-nibbling-coca-leaves-with-evo-morales-and-gently-teasing-cristina-elizabeth-fernandez-de-kirchner-ab/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:02:24 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=60136 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=60136 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/14/top-ten-reasons-hugo-chavez-wants-to-ban-golf-in-venezuela/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/14/top-ten-reasons-hugo-chavez-wants-to-ban-golf-in-venezuela/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:25:36 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=58295 "10. Capitalist pigs poke fun about the size of his putter.

9. He has nationalized all of the recreational balls in that country.

8. His booty looks really big when he wears his canary yellow Dockers.

7. He has a phobia about doing math in public and likes to eat pencils.

6. Daniel Ortega now wants a tip every time he caddies.

5. Venezuelan golfers are bourgeois and always make him cart jockey.

4. He feels if someone shoots a birdie, the people have a right to eat it.

3. Anyone who asks him about his handicap is immediately jailed.

2. Based on socialism, everyone should end up with the same score.

1. Lazy man's sport, misuse of public lands, much like chasing his wife around the lawn." Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=58295 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/14/report-venezuelas-hugo-chavez-aggressively-seizing-control-of-media/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/14/report-venezuelas-hugo-chavez-aggressively-seizing-control-of-media/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:56:13 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=58287 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=58287 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/13/pinochet-morales-castro-y-chavez-entre-los-lideres-peor-vestidos/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/13/pinochet-morales-castro-y-chavez-entre-los-lideres-peor-vestidos/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:34:53 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=58248 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=58248 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/12/since-venezuelas-president-hugo-chavez-called-golf-a-%e2%80%9cbourgeois-sport%e2%80%9d-officials-have-moved-to-shut-down-two-of-the-country%e2%80%99s-best-known-courses/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/12/since-venezuelas-president-hugo-chavez-called-golf-a-%e2%80%9cbourgeois-sport%e2%80%9d-officials-have-moved-to-shut-down-two-of-the-country%e2%80%99s-best-known-courses/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:51:16 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=58080 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=58080 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/05/nahj-condemns-venezuela-government-shutdown-of-radio-stations-opposes-proposed-sweeping-media-crimes-law/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/05/nahj-condemns-venezuela-government-shutdown-of-radio-stations-opposes-proposed-sweeping-media-crimes-law/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:17:11 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=57622 "The National Association of Hispanic Journalists condemns the Venezuelan government's shutdown of 34 private radio stations and strongly opposes a proposed law that would put journalists behind bars for a broad swath of supposed "media crimes."

By its own admission, the government's targeting of these 34 radio stations is a first step in considering similar actions against some 200 other stations across the country. President Hugo Chavez's declared war on certain opposition media reached a new level of aggressiveness Monday when 35 pro-government militants stormed the Globovisión television station, brandished weapons, threw two tear-gas canisters, and injured two people.

NAHJ calls on authorities to investigate the incident at Globovisión and arrange effective protection for the station's journalists and employees. (Press reports indicate that the leader of the violent incident, Lina Ron, was arrested Tuesday afternoon.) NAHJ also urges the government to reconsider its attempt to pass the Special Law Against Media Crimes, which we consider a true and far-reaching attack on freedom of expression and a free press.

The draft of the bill presented to the country's legislature by Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz calls for jail sentences varying from six months to four years for journalists and media owners who publish or broadcast "false news," or who "manipulate or distort the news" resulting in "generating a false perception of the facts or creating a mindset among society, so long as such action has damaged the social peace, domestic security, public order, and public health or public morality."

It also calls for jail time for journalists or media owners who refuse to identify their sources or "who willingly and without any justification refuse to report on facts or situations whose lack of dissemination may harm the right to information" under the country's constitution. In essence, journalists would be jailed for publishing the "wrong" information in the government's view, or failing to publish what the government wants them to.

Government officials have said that the crackdown on the radio stations and some television stations are an effort to "democratize" the media and take back for the people airwaves controlled by particular interests in Venezuela.

Although there is a place and a necessity for government-sponsored media, increasing government control of media is another matter. It is clear that the sustained campaign against certain private-owned media is an attempt to silence dissent and criticism of the government. As attorney general Ortega herself stated, "The Venezuelan state must regulate freedom of expressions. I demand that a limit be placed on this right."

We stand with our colleagues marching in Caracas or broadcasting in protest over loudspeakers in a public square in denouncing this as an attack on freedom of the press, which is not conducive to civic dialogue and the free airing of views essential for a healthy democracy.

Draft Special Law Against Media Crimes

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/08/03/en_pol_esp_draft-special-law-ag_03A2581803.shtml

AP story on the closing of radio stations in Venezuela

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCcAJIcCkFxq318tiWULvz7P5-nwD99RN4CG1

AFP story on Venezuela's proposed media crimes law

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iFG1PgKQkBNEoV0ZgvKhMeNT62bQ" Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=57622 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/03/venezuelan-regulators-revoked-the-broadcast-rights-of-34-radio-stations-on-friday-deepening-a-rift-between-president-hugo-chavezs-government-and-the-private-media/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/08/03/venezuelan-regulators-revoked-the-broadcast-rights-of-34-radio-stations-on-friday-deepening-a-rift-between-president-hugo-chavezs-government-and-the-private-media/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:15:45 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=57314 HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=57314 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/27/maria-conchita-alonso-narrates-new-documentary-about-latin-american-dictators-and-immigration/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2009/07/27/maria-conchita-alonso-narrates-new-documentary-about-latin-american-dictators-and-immigration/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:47:51 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/?p=57089 "Crossing Our Borders (www.crossingourborders.com) analyzes the effects of various Latin America’s dictators including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Argentina’s Juan Peron, Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, to Peru’s Alberto Fujimori, and most recently Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. These undemocratic leaders from both the right and the left have killed hundreds of thousands and have driven millions of their citizens away to escape their tyranny. They promise solutions to poverty, inequality, and the crime plaguing their nations, but their true motive is to remain in power for perpetuity. Hugo Chavez is our most recent example. This populist leader dissolved all democratic institutions in Venezuela replacing them with his Bolivarian revolution to perpetuate his grip on the Venezuelan people.

Crossing Our Borders features analyses from leading Latin American experts, eye-witness reports from political prisoners and expatriates from Latin America. Various contributions exhibited in the film are from prominent Latin newspapers, TV stations, and justice organizations from the US and Latin America provide an inside view of the problems in Latin American countries and the massive immigration into the US.

Actress Maria Conchita Alonso was born in Cuba but was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She became a popular actress in Latin America, securing spots on various telenovelas (soap operas) and starring in multiple Hollywood films. As an activist, she is known for being strongly against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and is a recurring guest on Fox’s The O’Reilley Factor with host Bill O’Reilly when Chavez or Latin American politics are discussed.

“For me it is very important to use my voice to somehow help the political prisoners in Venezuela,” said Alonso on making the film. “It is very important to speak up because I see the children of my friends, the children of my nieces and nephews growing up in a country [Venezuela] where they are going to be indoctrinated…and I can’t accept that.”

Director and producer Gladys Bensimon, also born in Venezuela, created the project to present a balanced and reasoned view of some of the Western Hemisphere’s worst public circumstances caused in part by these undemocratic leaders, such as Chavez.

“Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is the most recent example of how the breakdown of democratic government creates an insidious stew of fear in the citizens of various Latin American countries causing them to flee,” said Bensimon. “We analyze why more than 600,000 professionals and middle class citizens have fled Venezuela over the past 8 years under Chavez’s regime and what this means for the US.”

Bensimon has traveled the country to interview political leaders, experts, scholars, institutions and victims of political persecution to give the viewer a unique perspective on the issue. She has compiled more than 28 hours of video footage from her interviews in addition to more than 6 hours of b-roll footage from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Organization of American States, and various other government agencies, nonprofit organizations and media outlets in the US and Latin America. The documentary has been produced under the fiscal sponsorship of New York Women in Film and Television (www.nywift.org).

Bensimon says the project is fueled by personal motivation. “I knew I had to do something - in Venezuela, Chavez controls most of the media with propaganda, but here I have a voice,” said Bensimon. “I can speak out and show Americans how dictators in our neighboring countries to the south not only affect their people and their countries but also affect the lives of people in the US as well.”

Contact Press@crossingourborders.com or visit the web site (www.crossingourborders.com) for more information.

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About HBR Production Company:
HBR Production Company is an award-winning multilingual film and video production company with over 20 years of experience serving the tri-state area. Working across a wide range of genres, from educational to animation, HBR Production Company has a variety of clients and expertise. Gladys Bensimon, founder, has won several awards for the documentaries "Domestic Violence: The Legal Process", "Roll Call", and "The Silent Victims Speak,” all focusing on domestic violence and the effect it has on children. Visite for more information www. hbrproductions.com." Aggregated by HispanicTips :: Hispanic & Latino News & Information]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.hispanictips.com/p=57089 0