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Diana Barahona

Journaliste indépendante spécialisée dans la
politique latino-américaine

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International Republican Institute Grants Uncovered

Reporters Without Borders and Washington’s Coups

by Diana Barahona , Jeb Sprague

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 August 2006

British press baron Lord Northcliff said, "News is something that someone, somewhere wants to keep secret, everything else is advertising." If this is true, then U.S. government funding of Reporters Without Borders must be news, because the organization and its friends in Washington have gone (...)

The Corporate Media vs. Chavez

Uneasy Standoff in Venezuela’s Media Wars

by Diana Barahona

Caracas (Venezuela) | 22 August 2005

The controversy surrounding the media in Venezuela refuses to die. This is because the country is experimenting with a slow but steady anti-capitalist restructuring which the private media see as a threat to their existence. At this juncture, after surviving a military coup, a 63-day oil (...)