- Join the France 24 community here
- Log in
Latest update: 26/03/2010
- Hugo Chavez - Internet - Venezuela
Chavez determined to blog his way to revolutionary victory
After imposing his socialist "Bolivarian revolution" on national radio and television, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is now intent on spreading his ideology on the Web with a blog of his own.
By Lorena GALLIOT (text)
Venezuelan bloggers are quivering with anticipation after the announcement of a prominent newcomer in their midst: President Hugo Chavez himself.
The leader of Venezuela’s socialist “revolution” informed his countrymen on Sunday, via his weekly televised talk show “Alo Presidente”, that he would be blogging from the presidential palace of Miraflores in Caracas to counter his detractors on the Web.
“Why shouldn’t I have a computer somewhere in Miraflores with my own blog, so that I can communicate with millions, not only in Venezuela but in the world!”, Chavez said.
Describing the Internet as a “trench in the struggle” of ideologies, Chavez vowed to “bombard” web users with information on his regime and his political vision. “There have been counter-revolutions and coups organised on the Web. We have to be ready to counter the counter-revolutions. All this is part of the battle of socialism against capitalism,” he proclaimed.
A post on the Miami-based opposition blog Caracas Chronicles gleefully welcomed the challenge, dubbing the project the ‘Chavington Post’. “Welcome Hugo! This is going to be great fun…,” wrote blogger Quico.
'Hello, my name is Hugo and I’m new to blogging'
A blog under Chavez’s name showed up on the Web shortly after his TV appearance. Under the headline “my first blog post”, the entry read: “Hello, my name is Hugo and I’m new to all this blog and social networking stuff” before spelling out the president’s login password “so that I won’t forget it.”
Disappointingly, the post turned out to be a spoof site written by facetious opposition members. So far, the president’s online ambitions have not yet taken shape on the Web.
The president has a tendency to drop a good deal of the countless reforms, projects and new ideas he enthusiastically launches, so many web users have greeted his latest tirade with scepticism. “This will, thankfully, run the same luck as Chavez's radio programme ("De repente, Chavez"), which appeared and disappeared quite suddenly,” reacted blogger Pelao Manrique on Caracas Chronicles.
But the president’s talk of a “Bolivarian Internet” also deepened the unease of some critics, who are concerned that Chavez's recent moves to close opposition radio and television stations could broaden to an attempt to crack down on anti-Chavez posts on the Internet.
If and when the presidential blog is set up, it will add to the near-daily communications Chavez already makes over the airwaves and in print to his country of 27 million people.
Related Content
‘Darth Vader’ demands free land from Ukrainian government
Browse all editions
FRANCE 24 PARTNERS
Comments (17)
Life is good
Life is good when some authors like post their articles!
reader to RSS my feed
Yes there should realize the reader to RSS my feed to RSS commentary, quite simply
I wished to thank you for
I wished to thank you for this nice learn!! I definitely enjoying every little little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post
I’m still learning from you,
I’m still learning from you, but I’m bettering myself. I certainly love reading all the things that's written in your blog.Preserve the tales coming. I loved it!
I've included this blog post to my favorites
I have included this article to my favorites
gantt chart
[url=http://www.hadson.pl]kuchnie krakow[/url]
We all enjoyed the datalist and the datagrid controls in [url=http://www.treegrid.net/asp.net-datagrid.html]asp.net datagrid[/url] . There were thousands of operations that we can perform using datagrid and datalist control. [url=http://www.treegrid.net/asp.net-datagrid.html]asp net gridview[/url] ships with another data bound templated control which is called Grid View. Grid View has made everything easier for developers. [url=http://www.treegrid.net/asp.net-gridview.html]asp net grid[/url] changes that I have seen in Asp.net 2.0 is that we don't require a lot of code to achieve tasks but most of the functionality is already provided and built in the control.
In this article we will see the GridView control in action and we will see what type of operations we can [url=http://www.treegrid.net/dynamic-table.html]dynamic table[/url] perform using this control and how this control is better than the classic datagrid control.
Using the [url=http://www.treegrid.net/sort-table.html]sort table[/url] Control:
If you read my previous articles on DataGrid control you might have noticed that we need to write quite a bit of code to enable paging, sorting and selecting an item from the datagrid. Using the gridview control I did not even write a single line and got all the three things i.e, paging, sorting and selection for granted.
[url=http://www.accout.eu]biuro rachunkowe[/url] - [url=http://www.centrumprojektow.eu/leksykon/220/projekty,tanich,domow,jednorodzinnych/]projekty tanich domow jednorodzinnych[/url]
Me encanta este post -
Me encanta este post - totalmente kewl! ¡Bien hecho! Me voy a volver a este ...
Daily Shopping
You commit an error. Let's discuss it. Write to me in PM, we will communicate.
Many thanks for posting this,
Many thanks for posting this, It?s just what I was researching for on bing. I?d quite a bit comparatively hear opinions from an individual, slightly than an organization web page, that?s why I like blogs so significantly. Many thanks!
This was pretty provided that
This was pretty provided that there are a lot of out there just waiting for the right.
Mate. This blog is amazing.
Mate. This blog is amazing. How can I make it look this good ?
I’ve meant to post about
I’ve meant to post about something like this on my webpage and you gave me an idea. Cheers.
Just thought I would comment
Just thought I would comment and say great theme, did you code it for yourself? Really looks excellent!
cam to cam
what a beautiful article unlike many other posts with all the spam i had to view today
wholesale slippers
I searched for something completely different, but found your website! And have to say thanks. Nice read. Will come back.
jordan shoes
very well information you write it very
clean. I'm very lucky to get this information from you.
Thank you
Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for your good post. Your post helped me in my college assignment, If you can provide me more details please email me.
Post new comment