Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Venezuela's Media War: Is the Internet the Next Battleground?

1. “Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0,” Reporters Without Borders, 18 March 2010, http://en.rsf.org/web-2-0-versus-control-2-0-18-03-2010,36697

2. “Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Takes To Twitter,” USA Today, 29 April 2010, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2010-04-28-venezuela-chavez-twitter_N.htm

3. “False posts cannot be used to justify arbitrary control over the internet,” Reporters Without Borders, 15 March 2010, http://en.rsf.org/venezuela-false-posts-cannot-be-used-to-15-03-2010,36737.html

4. Rory Carroll, “Hugo Chávez embraces Twitter to fight online ‘conspiracy,’” The Guardian, 28 April 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/28/hugo-chavez-twitter-venezuela

5. Nick Allen, “Hugo Chavez to join Twitter,” Telegraph, 27 April 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7637168/Hugo-Chavez-to-join-Twitter.html

6. “Chavez Strikes Back at Critics With His Own Blog,” Aol News, 22 March 2010, http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/venezuelas-president-hugo-chavez-strikes-back-at-critics-with-his-own-blog/19408903

7. Shane Richmond, “Hugo Chavez hires army of Twitter managers,” Telegraph Blogs, 9 May 2010, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100005100/hugo-chavez-hires-army-of-twitter-managers/

8. Frank Jack Daniels, “Venezuela denies plans to censor Internet,” National Post, 15 March 2010, http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2686264

9. “Venezuela’s Chavez Starts Blog – But Shuts Down Venezuela Websites Including LAHT for 2 days,” http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357467&CategoryId=10717

10. Daniel Cancel and Corina Rodriguez Pons, “Venezuela to Set Currency Trading Band, Merentes Says,” Bloomberg Businessweek, 18 May 2010, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-18/venezuela-to-set-currency-trading-band-merentes-says-update3-.html

11. José Luis Cordeiro, “Chávez inició la censura del Internet,” El Universal, 31 May 2010, http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/05/31/opi_art_chavez-inicio-la-cen_1912636.shtml

12. Corina Rodrigez Pons and Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg Businessweek, 14 June 2010, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-14/chavez-s-popularity-rises-on-crackdown-as-gdp-suffers-update1-.html

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

This Ongoing Institutional Crisis Brought to You by Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega

1. Shelley A. McConnell, “Nicaragua’s Turning Point”, Current History, Volume 106, Number 697 (February 2007),86, http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=43C19796C2399B26BE00

2. Katherine Hoyt, “Parties and Pacts in Contemporary Nicaragua,” in Undoing Democracy, ed. David Close and Kalowatie Deonandan, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 23.

3. Tim Rogers, “Why Nicaragua’s Caged Bird Sings,” Time, May 2, 2007. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1616952,00.html?xid=rss-world

4. “Ortega’s Crab Dance”, The Economist, October 13, 2007, The Americas.

5. “How to steal an election; Nicaragua”, The Economist, November 15, 2008. The Americas.

6. “Nicaragua’s contested vote,” Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2008, Main News, Editorial pages desk, part A, pg 28.

7. “La Ley Orgánica de Poder Judicial/la Ley 260”, Título II, Artículo 31.

8. “La Ley de Amparo”, Tít. III, Cap. IV, Arto. 46.

9. “Nicaragua’s Chief Justice Denounces Pro-Ortega Ruling”, Latin American Herald Tribune, 20 Oct. 2009.

10. “Chaos All Around,” Revista Envío, March 2010, Number 334. http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/4146

11. “Brochazos y Pinceladas,” Revista Envío, May 2010, Number 338. http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/4172

12. “Nicaragua: International Community Back on the Alert,” Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America, May 2010, RC-10-05, ISSN 1465-0010.

13. Ibid.

14. “Opositores rechazan disolución del Parlamento,” La Prensa, May 27, 2010. http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2010/05/27/politica/25881

15. “Nicaragua’s Ortega to dissolve Congress?” LatinNews Daily, May 28, 2010. http://www.latinnews.com/ldb/LDB22113.asp?instance=11

16. Rory Carroll, “Oxfam targeted as Nicaragua attacks ‘trojan horse’ NGOs: Sandinista crackdown to ‘clean up’ political funding: Fears grow for freedom of speech and European aid,” The Guardian (London), October 14, 2007, Guardian International Pages, pg. 27.

17. Blake Schmidt, “Nicaraguan Former President Aleman Vows to Oust Sandinistas,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 19, 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-19/nicaraguan-former-president-aleman-vows-to-oust-sandinistas.html