To the Editor
Hello, my name is Jorge Marcano and I am from Venezuela. I was writing in reference to an article published by your newspaper on Sept. 19 about the ongoing political turmoil in Venezuela, “From Venezuela with love.”
I must say that I am rather disappointed to see that the article only focused on the opposition point of view. Should you decide to focus in future editions on the Venezuelan situation and wish to provide a more balanced coverage to readers, here are some links that you may consider looking into that will give you a more objective view of the situation rather than the perspective of wealthy Venezuelans that only represent a minority in the country.
It would be great if the majority of the people’s voices in Venezuela were heard on the debate – rather than only those of the wealthy and upper middle class, who by the way also control the private media in Venezuela. Here are the links:
http://www.cepr.net/columns/weisbrot/Venezuela’s_Recall.htm
http://fair.org/extra/0207/venezuela.html
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/ned.htm
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16255
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/editorials/LTE/weisbrot/weisbrot003/venezuela.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3167225.stm
http://www.journalstar.com/nw.php?story_id=81681
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030823/wl_nm/venezuela_chavez_dc_1
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0909/p07s02-woam.html
I hope that you, as journalists, would appreciate some news links from respected international organizations about the situation in Venezuela and not only one person’s opinion about the whole context of the nation’s democratically elected president twice, in 1998 and in the year 2000. Have a nice week,
Sincerely,
Jorge Marcano
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