Is the Legislative Branch Controlled by the Executive?
Is the Judicial branch controlled by the Executive?
Is the National Electoral Council controlled by the Executive?
Is the new Citizens' Power (the Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Comptroller and the Peoples' Advocate) controlled by the Executive?
Are the Supreme Court Justices biased in the discharge of their Duties? Is the Independence of the Judicial Career respected? Do Venezuelan Courts respect Constitutional Law principles? Is the Supreme Court at the service of the Administration?
Is the National Electoral Council (CNE) an Impartial Body? Does the CNE Address The Interests of Civil Society or those of the Government? Does the National Electoral Council Act In Conformity to the law? Is voting by way of electronic machines reliable? Does the Electoral Register (RE) contain true and precise information?
Are the media really independent? Does the Penal Code limit freedom of expression? Are journalists persecuted, threatened or harassed because of the way they cover the news?
Are human rights violated in Venezuela ? Does discrimination on political grounds exist in Venezuela? Are there political prisoners in Venezuela ? Are people persecuted for political reasons? Are those active in the defense of democracy in Venezuela persecuted and imprisoned? Are private life and private property respected? Is freedom in education respected? Have the human rights of the April 2002 victims been respected and have those responsible been indicted?
Is the Executive ruling under a military style?
Is the political parties system declining in Venezuela?
Are traditional trade-union organizations being respected?
Is the civil society allowed to exercise the functions conferred by the Constitution?
Argentina
La Nación
El fin de la propiedad (Carlos Alberto Montaner
Argenpress
La Revolución Bolivariana ¿Pacífica o Pendeja? (Martín
Guédez)
Colombia
El Espectador
No Llores por mí, Venezuela (Alma Guillermoprieto)
Una conversación con Teodoro Petkoff “Chávez es
autoritario y corrupto” (Alfredo Molano)
Semana
La influencia de cuba en Venezuela va mucho más lejos
de lo que los colombianos sospechan (Juanita León)
Spain
El Mundo
Chávez invierte 300 millones de dólares en su Fuerza Aérea (Ramy Wurgaft)
Consecuencias para América tras la victoria de Chávez
(Marco Vicentino)
“Pulso al Gobierno de Chávez ” (Ramy Wurgaft)
El País
Hay Puntos de encuentro sobre Venezuela (Perú Egurbide)
Vargas Llosa elogia la posición de los intelectuales
europeos ante Cuba (Francesca Relea)
El nuevo régimen de Venezuela I (Norman Gall)
El nuevo régimen de Venezuela II (Norman Gall)
El petróleo alimenta los sueños de 'revolución' de Chávez
(Francesc Relea)
The United States
The Washington Post
Buying support in Latin American (Jackson Diehl)
Hugo Chávez compra apoyo en América Latina (Jackson Diehl)
Latin America's curious pacemaker (Michael Shifter)
The "Mental Deformations" of a Comandante
(Marcela Sánchez)
Contained revolution (Michael Shifter)
Venezuelan's pin hopes on Chávez referendum (Scott Wilson)
Una voz razonable para América Latina (Marcela Sánchez)
Venezuela's Chavez Inspires Fierce Loyalty
(Christopher Toothaker
The New York Times
Picking a fight with Venezuela (Michael Shifter)
Venezuela's Fake Democrat (Bernard Aronson)
Chávez Restyles Venezuela With '21st-Century Socialism'
(Juan Forero)
Rifts Plague Anti-Chávez Venezuelans (Juan Forero)
Visitors Seek a Taste of Revolution in Venezuela (Juan Forero)
The Miami Herald
La 'ley mordaza'' obliga a la prensa venezolana a
autocensurarse (Steven Dudley)
Hugo Chávez deserves prize for economic bumbling
(Andrés Oppenheimer)
Venezuela's institutions under President Chavez's
control-Editorial
Venezuelans cheer and protest presence of doctors from Cuba
(Frances Robles)
The Wall Street Journal
The Tehran-Caracas Axis
Economic Freedom Advance
'Index of Economic Freedom' Shows
El Nuevo Herald
Fuerte oposición al radicalismo chavista (Casto Ocando)
¿Un milagro en Venezuela? (Andrés Oppenheimer)
"Hugo Chávez desalmado" (Saúll Pérez Lozano)
La maldición de la riqueza (Alejandro Gómez)
"Los fantasmas de Chávez" (Editorial de La Nación de
Costa Rica)
El flanco débil de Chávez (Andrés Reynaldo)
Camisas Rojas Hoy (Saúl Pérez Lozano)
¡Hay esperanza para Latinoamérica! (Andrés Oppenheimer)
Bufón con Agenda (Opinión)
Foreign Policy
Hugo Boss (Javier Corrales)
The Economist
The expansion of South Americ's trade block is
perverting its purpose
The difficulty of standing up to Hugo Chávez in
an election that may well not be free or fair
The expansion of South America's trade
block is perverting its purpose
Multipolar, or just anti-American?
France
Le Figaro
Chavez courtise l'Amérique centrale avec son pétrole
(Frédéric Faux)
L'Etat redistribue les terres aux pauvres; Depuis le début de
l'année, et dans la perspective de la présidentielle en 2006,
Caracas accélère la « révolution bolivarienne ».
(Lamia OUALALOU)
Comment le Venezuela saborde sa propre compagnie
pétrolière; ÉNERGIE PDVSA est la principale source
de financement de la politique sociale du gouvernement
Chavez ( Lamia OUALALOU)
Mexico
El Economista
“Opinión -Banco Central de Venezuela, ¿advertencia para
México?,” (Gerardo Cruz Vasconcelos)
United Kingdom
Financial Times
Caudillos with crude can pose a challenge (Editorial comment)
BBC Mundo
El problema con Chávez
International News Agencies
AFP
EEUU advierte a países vecinos de los riesgos de la "revolución
bolivariana"
EFE
Argentina-Vargas Llosa; El escritor, preocupado con Kirchner
y Chávez y contento con Lula
