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La globalización ha hecho que hoy existan los diarios para REPORTEROS CIUDADANOS. Qué significa esto ? Pues que cualquier persona con habilidades de buen REPORTERO se puede suscribir en el lugar y entonces subir su noticia o reportaje sobre un tema de interés general. En internet existen al menos 4 lugares para poder participar como REPORTERO CIUDADANO. Los nombres son los siguientes : (1) OhmyNews ; (2) Citizenxpress ; (3) NowPublic ; y (4)NewsVine
Las condiciones son las siguientes:
en OhmyNews es necesario que los artículos se escriban en idioma inglés; además,
los editores harán algunas correcciones y si el artículo es aprobado puede ser remunerado en la moneda local de Corea del Sur, donde se ubica el diario. En los otros lugares no existen tales restricciones,pero en conveniente escribir en Inglés en especial en Citizenxpress que esta ubicado en la India.
Yo sugiero que en GOOGLE busquen esos lugares y sus enlaces o link
Askain tiene varios Blogs y Wikis, cual más interesantes
After a sweeping re-election victory, President Hugo Chavez reaffirmed his goal of transitioning Venezuela from a capitalist democracy into a socialist state.
As Mr. Chavez was sworn in for his new six-year term before the National Assembly, he raised his right hand and boldly declared, “Fatherland, socialism or death—I swear it. I swear by Christ—the greatest socialist in history.”
Mr. Chavez also said he would ask the National Assembly, which is controlled by his political allies, for special powers allowing him to enact a series of “revolutionary laws” by decree. Seeing his victory as a referendum by the Venezuelan people, his immediate plans include sweeping changes, such as nationalizing power and telecommunications companies, and eliminating presidential term limits—in effect, paving the way to becoming a ruler for life.
Critics have accused him of doing the bidding of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whom Mr. Chavez admires. Rather than denying the charge, Mr. Chavez responded, “The important thing is that the people will make the decision.”
An Associated Press poll conducted in November 2006 found that 62% of Venezuelans strongly support nationalizing companies when “in the national interest,” while 84% of citizens opposed totalitarian forms of government such as Communist Cuba. The survey seems to indicate a desire to have the best of both worlds—the “free handouts” of a socialist state accompanied by the personal freedoms and human rights found in democratic nations. Yet, throughout history, have the two of these ever occurred in the same system?
Venezuela is now the fifth largest oil-producing nation in the world, accounting for more than 80% of the country’s export revenue. Mr. Chavez has cemented his grassroots popularity by using these oil windfalls to fund programs such as state-subsidized grocery stores and, with even more popular support, the Bolivian University of Venezuela. Opened by presidential decree in 2003, the university is free and open to all, regardless of academic qualifications, prior education or even nationality.
In order to ease the fears of his country embracing socialism, Mr. Chavez has stated he is developing a new “21st century socialism.”
However—in a chilling harbinger of things to come—the Venezuelan leader closed his January 10, 2007 speech by boldly repeating the mantra made famous by Fidel Castro: “Toward victory always! Fatherland, socialism or death! We shall prevail!” Time will tell how Mr. Chavez’s vision differs from socialist experiments of the past.
Is Mr. Chavez’s statement above correct? Was Jesus Christ a socialist? Was His message one of socialism—or was it something very different?
2007-08-10
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Chavez’s U.N. Moment
Why Do Latin Democrats Support Him?
By Jackson Diehl
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/jackson+diehl
Monday, October 16, 2006; Page A21
It's Election Day for Hugo Chavez -- not in Venezuela but at the United Nations General Assembly. Today a vote is due on his government's bid for a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council. Chavez has spent most of this year campaigning for the job, traveling the world and promising tens of millions of dollars in aid to poor countries in Asia and Africa whose votes he's counting on. His ambition is a big one: to become the leader of global opposition to the United States, or, as he puts it, to "radically oppose the violent pressure that the empire exercises."
There's a fair chance he'll lose. Most vote counters at the United
Nations think Venezuela will fall short of the 122 General Assembly
Votes it needs on the first ballot, as will its opponent for the seat, Guatemala.
One of the two might win on subsequent ballots, but Latin American governments are already anticipating that a third candidate
From the region -- such as Uruguay or the Dominican Republic -- will end up getting the job. If so it will be a wounding rebuff for Chavez following his Bush-as-devil tirade before the assembly last month, and One that could hurt him in another vote, if it is free and fair: his bid for reelection as president in December. His opponent in that race has been hammering home the point that Chavez is squandering the country's oil revenue on foolish foreign adventures.
A Chavez defeat would save the Bush administration from embarrassment And spare the Security Council a nuisance factor. Still, there won't be much to celebrate. The fact that a clownish populist who has eagerly embraced the presidents of Iran, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Libya could even come close to getting two-thirds of the votes of the 192 U.N. members is testimony to how low U.S. prestige has sunk around the world. More specifically, it's a measure of how twisted U.S. relations with Latin America have become -- and also, how fragile the appeal of democratic values is in that region.
How twisted? Let's look at Chile, a country that has been convulsed by debate the past two months over whether to vote for or against Chavez.
Chile's democratic president, Michelle Bachelet, is a moderate leftist; her government has a free-trade agreement with the United States and just took delivery of new F-16s for its air force. Some in her party were sheltered during the Pinochet dictatorship by Venezuela's then-liberal democratic government. Chavez has not only dismantled that democracy but has vociferously supported Bolivia's claim to a piece of Chile's coastline. Under a military pact he signed with Bolivia's leftist government, Venezuela is committed to building new military bases on Bolivia's border with Chile.
All this, and yet Bachelet was unable to decide on her government's vote by yesterday. Only strong opposition from the centrist Christian Democratic Party, a member of her coalition, prevented her from backing Chavez. Why? A vote for Guatemala, she told Christian Democratic congressmen earlier this month, "would be a signal of little independence from the United States," which has been pressing hard for Guatemala's candidacy, according to an account of the meeting by the newspaper El Mercurio.
In other words, as Chile's president sees it, it's better to support a budding autocrat who promises to defend Iran's nuclear program on the Security Council, and may threaten her own country's security, than to be seen as close to Chile's largest trading partner and strategic arms
supplier at a time when it is trying to use the Security Council to stop Iran (and North Korea) from acquiring nuclear weapons.
This certainly says something about Chile, and neighbors Brazil and Argentina, which are also supporting Chavez: that they value Venezuela's investment in their economies more than preventing nuclear proliferation (Chavez is buying debt from Argentina and aircraft from Brazil); that solidarity with a neighbor matters more than solidarity with other democracies (probably the only votes for Venezuela in the free world will come from Latin America and the Caribbean); that their governments prefer a weaker United States to a chastened Hugo Chavez.
But this affair also underlines the continuing fecklessness of the Bush administration's approach to Latin America. There is its over reliance on faithful but small allies in Central America and its inability to come to terms with the region's giant, Brazil. There is its heavy-handed lobbying, which prompted Guatemala's foreign minister to say that he wished Washington "would not promote our cause so much." Most disturbing, there is the inability to win support from a nominally close ally such as Chile, even against an autocratic demagogue. Chavez may lose the U.N. vote, but in the contest for Latin America, the United States isn't winning.
Los Diplomáticos y Revolución
Por Alfredo Michelena
Mientras los Diplomáticos de Carrera con muchos años de experiencia están "jugando banco" o en listas para ser jubilados, los nuevos actores políticos de la cancillería toman posiciones.
La Ley del Personal del Servicio Exterior de 2000 que permitió el ingreso de la mayoría de los diplomáticos en comisión y que creo inicialmente condiciones para el respeto a esta profesión de Estado, fue reformada posteriormente para retomar el control de una Cancillería que aparentemente no comulgaba con las directrices revolucionarias.
Esta reforma es parte de una segunda etapa de la revolución signada por una mayor escalada en la represión, que ha forzado a un número importante de funcionarios experimentados a dejar la Casa Amarilla, sea por renuncia, jubilación o destitución.
La reforma eliminó el porcentaje de Embajadores reservados a los funcionarios de carrera. Ahora en el nombramiento de los "representantes personales" del Presidente no se toman en cuenta los méritos y los intereses fundamentales del Estado venezolano, sino el compromiso para perseguir derroteros revolucionarios, que no están enmarcados en la Constitución bolivariana y que por ende no reflejan los intereses permanentes e históricos de la Nación.
Como lo han repetido últimamente los Cancilleres, y hasta el mismo Presidente, ahora los Embajadores deben comulgar con los objetivos de la revolución o renunciar.
Otro objetivo fundamental de esta etapa han sido los Terceros Secretarios. Se les ha sometidos a un filtro ideológico para su ingreso, y luego a un constante adoctrinamiento y "montioréo", para asegurarse que estén al servicio de la revolución y sean de confianza del "apparatchik".
El conductor de la Cancillería, Nicolás Maduro, recientemente dijo que la nueva diplomacia requería jóvenes universitarios revolucionarios e invitó al Frente Francisco de Miranda, el cual "tiene un conjunto de jóvenes formados desde el punto de vista político, ideológico", a "conformar lo que podría ser un destacamento de vanguardia que asuma el proceso de preparación para la nueva diplomacia del futuro".
El objetivo es crear una "Cancillería anti-imperialista" y "disciplinada alrededor del jefe del Estado" y "con el proyecto de transformación bolivariano".
La semana pasada se anunció el inicio de la primera promoción de la Maestría en Política Exterior de Venezuela, dictada por el Instituto de Altos Estudios Diplomáticos "Pedro Gual", y se destacó que se contemplan asignaturas adicionales como la del pensamiento bolivariano y las pasantías en misiones sociales. Además, los nuevos funcionarios deberán realizar trabajo social "voluntario".
Estos aspirantes a Terceros Secretarios tomarán cursos sobre el "socialismo del siglo XXI", con profesores "entre los que destacan el alemán Heinz Dieterich, los cubanos Luís Suárez Salazar y Pablo Guadarrama, o los venezolanos Jerónimo Carrera, internacionalista y presidente del Partido Comunista, y Carlos Escarrá, abogado y diputado en la Asamblea Nacional".
Si bien está clara la política internacional de la revolución bolivariana, es recientemente cuando, sin pudor, los jefes de la Casa Amarilla develan los procesos de ideologización y "sectarización" o "partidización" a los que se están sometiendo a los funcionarios diplomáticos.
En estas condiciones es difícil hablar de un funcionariado de Estado o de una Cancillería que represente los intereses de la Nación. "La Casa", como es llamada coloquialmente la Cancillería por los viejos diplomáticos, está en ruinas y hay que restaurarla.
Un nuevo gobierno deberá asumir rápidamente un proceso de reingeniería y, reorganizar y reinstitucionalizar la Cancillería, así como recuperar al funcionariado de Estado en descomposición y recomponerlo sobre bases democráticas, y finalmente, reconstituir la Carrera Diplomática desde una perspectiva de méritos, experiencia y capacidades y no de pertenencia a partidos o sumisión a ideologías.
A Tale of Two Opposition Candidates
Brazil, Venezuelan challengers have similar backgrounds
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
Gerardo Alckmin, a 54 year-old middle class doctor, abandons the governorship of the State of Sao Paulo and becomes the main opposition candidate in the campaign against the incumbent president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva. Manuel Rosales, a 52 year-old politician, also resigns his governorship of Zulia state to run against the present president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
Alckmin, of the Social Democrat Party, was a councilman, then mayor or manager of the city of Sao Paulo, and then governor of the State of Sao Paulo. Rosales, also of the Social Democrat Party, he was likewise councilman and mayor of the City of Maracaibo and then governor of Zulia state.
These two politicians qualify as low profile if compared with the prominence and the rhetorical speech of Lula and of Chavez. But although these two politicians are perceived as uninspiring, they have achieved, in little time, a percentage of intention of the vote between 30-35 percent due to their persistence and due to voters' responsiveness to their criticism of the incumbents.
Lula and Chavez both have around 50 percent support from likely voters, but are on a downward trend. The candidates Alckmin and Rosales are denouncing the several failures of their governments and the serious problems of high corruption, unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunities, insecurity, and the abandonment of promises.
Some aspects of these political campaigns that have received comment are the popularity of Lula and Chavez among the poorest class of the population and the growing disinterest of the middle class in voting, although in Brazil voting is obligatory and in Venezuela it is voluntary.
Alckmin and Rosales are optimists and they want to continue their campaigns to the end (October and December); therefore they are tireless workers, and they recall how in similarly difficult situations they gained votes due to the success of their educational, health, infrastructure, and social projects.
Alckmin and Rosales are both well-liked by businessman and bankers, because they place importance on the market economy and treat problems with transparency and with diplomacy. Their programs are very similar. The strategy of their campaigns are of resistance and not of force, as well as to add political power at a serious moment of public insecurity.
These two candidates have fought the mafia institutions that misappropriate public funds and traffic influence.
One of the most serious problems in the political campaign in Brazil and in Venezuela is that the poorest are easily swayed by populist and emotional speech. Both Lula and Chavez know how to manipulate speech to attract the popular masses by offering them "virtual" political power but few real solutions.
These politicians are perceived as typical Social Democrats; that is to say, they are tolerant and although also charismatic, they feel compelled to improve the social surroundings in a state of equality and justice.
Although both candidates desire to fight corruption, their political advisers know that that is not a subject that mobilizes the masses and excites them. For that reason they recommend focusing on the issue that always recur in the countries of Latin America; that is to say, strategies for solving poverty.
The short-term strategy is based on giving low-income families additions to the minimum wage, but granted without intermediaries so that they receive the income directly.
For example, the Venezuelan, Rosales, is offering in his campaign a debit card with the popular name "the Black Card" (the color of petroleum). This debit card would be given to around 2 million very low-income families.
The financial source for this first temporary solution would be one-fifth of the country's oil income.
This complementary welfare program would be combined with other social projects and an aggressive promotion of public and private investments with the medium-term objective to create jobs and new opportunities for small companies. But the more long-term project would be more integral and would consist of fiscal macroeconomic actions, monetary reform, and rational use of the government budget to obtain progress.
This strategy already has been implanted in Chile and in that country it has had many results, to such an extent that today the country exports more goods and services to the European Economic Community and to the United States and many countries of Latin America.
This integral strategy has still not been embraced by Alckmin, but it is the approach preferred by Rosales, and it is possible that this is the only difference that exists among them and between the Social Democratic parties that they represent.
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