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Quico says: One of the few rays of hope I found on my recent trip to Caracas was the rise of Canal i, the most promising of the...
Life
Off The Rails
Quico says: Sometimes, you have to take your hat off to the sheer audacity of chavista officialdom in full larceny mode. Say what you will about them, but...
Venezuelan Parties Still Don't Get the Internet
Quico says: One thing should be clear by now: Venezuelan party websites pretty much suck. Most of them appear to have been started up by an enthusiastic volunteer...
Disclaimer
Juan Cristobal and I wish to make clear that, while we realize the recent set of posts have been about as popular as a rabbi at a Hizbollah...
Stragglers, personal vehicles and a bit of nostalgia
…a shocking number of “parties” have no website to speak of. Podemos, Proyecto Venezuela, Causa R, UPV (Lina Ron’s vehicle), Venezuela de Primera, URD, MIN and MAS, have...
Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) + Tribuna Popular
URL: http://www.pcv-venezuela.org/orhttp://www.tribuna-popular.org/ (PCV shares a website with the party’s daily newspaper, Tribuna Popular.) Updatedness 20 out of 20: The decision to roll the Tribuna Popular and PCV websites...
Copei Digital
URL: http://www.partidocopei.org.ve/ Updatedness: 5 out of 20.“Noticias actuales” from May. A separate “National Blog” is updated about once every 3 days. Interaction possibilities: 11 out of 20.You get...
Acción Democrática's Turn
URL: http://www.acciondemocratica.org.ve/ Updatedness: 2 out of 20.“Latest news” are from April, party documents, for the most part, are 1 and 2 years old. Interaction possibilities: 0 out of...
Primero Justicia on the Web
URL: http://www.primerojusticia.org.ve/ Updatedness: 16 out of 20Near-daily news updates, but too many links still send you to “Under Construction” pages. Also, the activities page is out of date....
PPT-sur-Web
URL: http://www.ppt.org.ve/ Updatedness: 3 out of 20.It looks like the site was pretty scrupulously maintained…until last April! Interaction possibilities: 0 out of 20. There aren’t any. Meaningful positions...
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