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The Devil's Poop: Miguel Octavio's comprehensive Venezuelan news blog
Daniel's Blog: The view from Ruritania
Kepler's Blog: Venezuela, meet Europe. Europe, Venezuela.
Global Voices Online: Worldwide blog roundup: Venezuela page.
OilWars: Once chavista, now wobbly lefty blog.
21st Century Socialism: Calvin Tucker's cybershrine to chavismo and the Soviet model.

Spanish Blogroll

Blogs de El Nacional: Featuring Hernán Lugo Galicia's PSUV gossip blog Política de Ñapa.
Panfleto Negro: Literary mass blog, open to all comers.
Los Cuadernos Azul y Marrón: Vicente Ulive-Schnell's cantankerous rambling.
Radar de los Barrios: Chuo Torrealba's innovative innitiative on Caracas's shantytowns.
Ana Julia Jatar's Blog: Wonkish stuff
Webarticulista Collective opposition opinion blog
Sin el chivo y sin el mecate: the students come of age
Capuchino: Father Jesus Garcia's unique perspective from Kavanayén, Edo. Bolívar
La Silla Vacía: The view from the sister republic

English Links

VenEconomy: Venezuela's leading bilingual business magazine, and Quico's former employer.
El Universal in English: Not very well translated news from EUD.
Google News: Top Venezuela stories.
The Latin American Herald Tribune: Successor to the venerable old, now defunct, Daily Journal.
Miami Herald: Venezuela Page.
Financial Times: Americas Page
Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page
Amnesty International: Venezuela Page
Francisco Rodríguez @ Wesleyan: Top resource for economic research into the impact of the Chávez era
Organization of American States: Venezuela Page
Venezuela Information Office: Our tax-bolivars at work - government-run pro-Chávez blog aimed at the US
Venezuelanalysis.com: Most sophisticated pro-Chávez site.

Spanish Links

Noticias 24: The granddaddy of Venezuelan news aggregators, plus insane bulletin boards.
Twitter #Venezuela: Micro-blogging site's Venezuela stream.
TalCual: Newspaper edited by the legendary Teodoro Petkoff. Subscription required and worth it
El Universal: "Serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded.
El Nacional: The other "serious" Caracas daily, strongly opposition minded
Globovision: Opposition run 24 hour news station. Text news free, Windows Media Video by subscription.
Union Radio Noticas: News portal and streaming audio.
GoogleNews Venezuela: Venezuela GoogleNews portal in Spanish.
Ultimas Noticias: Tabloid edited by Eleazar Díaz Rangel. Chávez-friendly. Subscription.
Descifrado: Opposition financial gossip site. Some items free, others by subscription.
El Chigüire Bipolar: Closest thing Venezuela has to The Onion. Very silly. And hysterical.
Notiven: News digest + links to dozens of Venezuelan newspapers.
ODH Grupo Consultor: News monitoring and economic analysis.
Urru.org: Massive oppo archive
E-lecciones: Fascinating selection of polling power points, international observer reports, and other election related stuff
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias State news agency: all chavista propaganda all the time
Aporrea.org: Website of the Asamblea Popular Revolucionaria. Militant pro-Chávez site, occasionally critical of the government
VTV - Canal Ocho: State TV. Hardcore propaganda. Live WindowsMedia work only sometimes
Panorama: Maracaibo newspaper, privately owned but aggressively pro-Chávez
teleSUR: Hemispheric arm of the chavista propaganda machine
Viejas Fotos Actuales: Fun archive of historical pictures, films and audio recordings
Provea: One of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs
Cofavic: The other one of Venezuela's two most respected human rights' NGOs
Human Rights Watch: Venezuela Page
Central Bank of Venezuela: Good starting point for economic and monetary data.
Finance Ministry: data.
El Librito Azul: Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - 1999

Frontline on Chávez

Frontline's genius 2008 documentary on the Chávez era. (Versión en español aquí.)

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Law of the Land

A documentary shot in 2002 and 2003, contrasting the experiences of two Venezuelan farms taken over in the name of the revolution.

Venezuela - Spanish with English Subtitles. Produced by Francisco Toro, Directed by Megan Folsom.


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Running time: 60 minutes.

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