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Venezuela: The War of the Surveys
In the quest for power, uncertainty appears
Alfredo Ascanio (askain)
Published 2006-11-16 14:49 (KST)
A recent Evans/McDonough poll shows that only 65 percent of Venezuelans are confident about next month's elections. But answers to a majority of the questions in this survey indicate that the country is politically polarized. This phenomenon creates uncertainty for the elections.
Forty percent of the voters think the vote will be conducted with fraud. In other words, a full 4 out of 10 Venezuelans doubt the integrity of their own electronic voting machines.
The other issue is "the war of the surveys." On Nov. 7, as unknown Venezuelan business -- Consultants 30.11 -- announced that President Hugo Chavez had the support of 57 percent of the people. His challenger, Manuel Rosales, had 35 percent. But it should be noted that Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA) paid that poll.
On Wednesday, the University Complutense of Madrid and the Venezuelan business Veneopsa said that with a sample of more than 3,000 polled, Chavez had 57.8 percent of the votes, Rosales 26.9 percent.
Investigative journalist Alfred Keller found that almost 6 million votes came from Rosales's group and another 6 million came from Chavez's group; in other words, a full tie between Chavez and Rosales (both at 40 percent).
Chavez's reelection campaign has been less aggressive. He has said that to gain votes he needs new support and another strategy. The new support consisted of inviting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to inaugurate a second bridge on the Orinoco River, which was built by companies run by both governments.
Lula's visit was very important because he spoke with passion about the work of Chavez and he recognized that he had faced the same problems in his reelection campaign. A director of the National Electoral Counsel protested the presence of Lula and his endorsement on TV for Chavez.
Elections in Venezuela will be held on Dec. 3. The two candidates are very different leaders. Chavez has the advantage of political power but Rosales has the example of his work as governor of Zulia state.
According to another survey, it is possible that Rosales will obtain 48 percent of the votes and Chavez 40 percent. But in the current political climate, there is a dangerous possibility that the votes will be very close. We could see a crisis as happened in Mexico recently. Another possibility: Chavez, 57.4 percent, Rosales, 30.9 percent. These averages are the most recent data.
In countries with little political culture, it is not acceptable for a contender to win a presidential election with a few votes more than his opponent. Always protests arise.
I have interviewed some local people about the presidential election. Some of the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods complain that the government has promised them dwellings but have failed to deliver. Others say that the fault for these failures lie not with Chavez but with his ministers.
The middle class complains about unemployment, currently at 15 percent, and inflation, 12 percent per year. Members of this social class are more conscious that the government is populist and autocratic and believe that it espouses the same communist ideology as Cuba.
Come Dec. 3, we expect that uncertainty will be high because the Venezuelan political campaign will be watched not only by Venezuelans but also by all Latin Americans and even by the United States and European.
©2006 OhmyNews
Other articles by reporter Alfredo Ascanio
2006/11/14 오전 6:20
Today 15 November the University Complutence of Madrid and the business Venezuelan Veneopsa said that with a sample of more than three thousand polled people Hugo Chavez has the 57,8% of the votes and Rosebushes the 26,9%.
Hoy en GLOVISION se presentó Douglas Shoen, director ejecutivo de la famosa empresa de encuestas PENN SHOEN AND BERLAND y señaló que el trabajo que ellos realizaron con una muestra representativa del universo y con 3% de margen de error de todos los inscritos en el Registro Electoral, indica que la elección será muy cerrada pues casi existe para hoy 16 de noviembre un empate técnico entre Chávez y Rosales y que los resultados de ellos coiciden con los de Alfredo Keller. Aunque no se puede predecir quién ganaría la contienda, lo que se puede decir es que la tendencia favorece a Rosales y que lo más probable es que los indecisos decidan el ganador.
Quo vadis, Mercosur? Our country is not a banana plantation republic. We do not intend, with this precision, to disqualify to any nation particularly, but to utilize a concept, with pejorative load, that applies to countries with determined cultural, civic, and economic underdevelopment. We do not integrate a community of that type.Therefore, the language collides us deeply that employ certain politicians -included some ours-the gross references to its adversaries, the lack of the most minimum respect toward world or simply neighboring hierarches of gravitation, wrong or not, and the permanent traffic between the ridiculous thing and the aggressive thing, all it starred in by the present first proxy of the great Venezuelan nation. The serious thing of the case is that its interventions and references are not limited al environment of its country but they transcend it being interfered in the outside internal matters of borders, as is the case of the Mexican, Peruvian, and Bolivian elections, and intending to dictate bound for the towns of Latin America. To give free rein to their uncontrollable “verborragia”, has a periodic news program since the one that thinks "to knickers removed", like the Spaniards say. Also it controls to the mass media of its country by means of the "Law of Social Responsibility of Radio and TV" and of multiple resources to maintain to line to the press written. The journalists offenders are exposed to receive strong fines and even griefs of jail. Therefore well; besides the petrodollars that spills abundantly in them you needed Latin-American chests, the president Chávez thinks up a new vehicle to cause to arrive his message, a message of change toward the socialism just as he understands him. He is a matter of Telesur, a TV undertaking in which they have associated themselves Venezuela, and main shareholder, Cuba, Bolivia and Uruguay. The "message chapista” seeks to reach an objective: to form citizens, to democratize the television, dominated by media dictatorships, a good dose of indigenism and a constant fight antiimperialista (in fact antinorteamericana). It is proposed, therefore, to fight against the supposed averages truths, manipulations and prevarications that limit the civic liberties. Al president Vázquez -that agreed this commitment still slope of the parliamentary approval- there would be that to recall him that of "show me with who do you walk and I will tell you who are"... Because, for example, ¿what credentials has the totalitarianism of the hereditary and life president to diffuse a liberal voice of the one that lacks obviously? What credentials can show off the president Chávez to cause to hear in Latin America when its platform is "Not to the pax American. Not to Superman. Not al American empire. Not. “That is the road to hell", while has functioning 14 thousand (fourteen thousand) service stations with Venezuelan fuel in United States? Double speech? Is dependable the president Chávez, former favoring a coup soldier? Now wanted to enter al Mercosur -after being gone of the Andean Community- and already entered him. It celebrated it with an imposing military parade that put of relief its arms politics. Does not it want to know anything of the Razorbill. Neither of the TLC with United States. Already it had been said that this Mercosur does not serve us. One must improve it or to be gone. It evil is that with the income of Venezuela got worse. It suggested the formation of an Mercosur army. Why? It is that foresees a war against United States or an unificación by the force of the South American continent and its boundaries? We ignore it. The certain thing is that this Mercosur is clearly politicized, ideologizado, without be notified in its members no sign of opening al world, only road that conducts not to progressive goals but al true progress. Is the lesson that arises of the recent history of China, Poland, Ireland, South-korea, Taiwan... It does enough time, the French political scientist Guy Sorman sentenced: "Do not I believe that putting in a same bed to four sick manage to improve them". With Venezuela at Mercosur neither.
En el enlace que sigue aparece la Hoja Web de la Radio Nacional de Venezuela, una instituci[on dedicada a divulgar los conceptos pol[iticos del gobierno :
NOTICIAS
EDUCACIÓN
Detectada la venta de diplomas falsos de Oxford
EL PERIÓDICO
BARCELONA
Unas falsificaciones de títulos universitarios puestas a la venta en
internet por cerca de 240 euros han dado la voz de alarma entre los
principales centros educativos del Reino Unido, entre ellos la
prestigiosa universidad de Oxford. El caso fue destapado ayer por el
diario The Guardian, después de que una de sus reporteras lograse
adquirir tres diplomas diferentes, entre ellos un título de Medicina de
Oxford.
Según los responsables de varias universidades, los falsos diplomas
parecen auténticos y llevan sellos y firmas que no se distinguen de los
verdaderos. Abarcan, además, desde la educación secundaria hasta la
superior.
Peter Leon Quinn, que se autodenomina El mago, promociona sus
falsificaciones sin tapujos en una página web. Ya antes de que The
Guardian lo descubriera, la policía lo había interrogado, aunque fue
puesto en libertad sin cargos porque la falsificación de diplomas no
consta como delito.
Por ello, los diputados de la Cámara de los Comunes pedirán al ministro
de Educación, Charles Clarke, que investigue estos falsos títulos, que
afectan a otras carreras como Derecho y Filosofía y Letras. En opinión
del diputado laborista y presidente del comité de educación de los
Comunes, Barry Sheerman, el timo es "terrible".
"Esto se está convirtiendo en más que una industria --añadió--. La gente
utiliza falsas cualificaciones. Vamos a tener que implantar un sistema,
como una base de datos donde se pueda verificar la autoría de los
expedientes", indicó Sheerman.
IMAGEN DAÑADA
Centros educativos como Oxford consideran que las falsificaciones dañan
la integridad y la imagen de estas instituciones. "Es muy ofensivo para
nosotros y para todos los graduados que han trabajado por licenciarse",
apuntó un portavoz.
Noticia publicada en la página 035 de la edición de Martes, 6 de julio
de 2004 de El Periódico de Catalunya