• Hugo Chavez gets press award in Argentina
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[img]http://news.asiaone.com/A1MEDIA/news/03Mar11/others/20110330.115754_hugochavez.jpg[/img] [quote=AsiaOne] BUENOS AIRES, March 29, 2011 (AFP) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was honored in Argentina on Tuesday with a press award - raising eyebrows among some as he has been criticized for clamping down on the press at home. "I accept and dedicate this prize in the name of the people of your brother country, Venezuela, which has been fighting for years to shape dynamic peoples' media, free of the media dictatorship of the upper class and the United States," the leftist Chavez said at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), with a crowd of thousands looking on. Chavez won the Rodolfo Walsh prize from the university's journalism department. Walsh was a journalist who cofounded Cuba's Prensa Latina agency, and went missing during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Florencia Saintout, the department's dean, said the award was "in honor of Chavez' long career and struggle for the identity of the peoples of the Americas." Senator Norma Morandini, a former journalist, said the award was tantamount to "giving a prize for disdain for the press." In 2007 Chavez drew domestic and international outcry by shutting down the prominent opposition-owned RCTV television, the only anti-government broadcast channel in the South American nation. Chavez, in his address, took on the criticism directly saying "Oh, how can they give a prize to Chavez, who has shut down I don't know how many radio stations, who puts journalists on trial, who tramples (rights) ... Lies!" [/quote] Source: [url]http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20110330-270838.html[/url] What
All praise our golrious and benevolent leader.
[quote]Senator Norma Morandini, a former journalist, said the award was tantamount to "giving a prize for disdain for the press."[/quote] I'm going to agree with this journalist.
[quote]free of the media dictatorship of the upper class and the United States[/quote] Yeah, and Arthur Gobineau wasn't a eugenicist.
I didn't know about this :/
Chavez isn't a bad guy, really.
[QUOTE=Miskatonic;28893534]Chavez isn't a bad guy, really.[/QUOTE] Nope not at all [url]http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/venezuela/report-2009[/url] [url]http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/venezuela/report-2010[/url] [url]http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/09/19/venezuela-human-rights-watch-delegation-expelled[/url]
Excuse my ignorance but does that award not say "Operation Massacre"?
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