Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Venezuela's Chávez launches interactive blog

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has announced the launch of his new interactive blog http://www.chavez.org.ve/ , as part of a broader campaign to take the “media war” to the Internet. Available to users of the site are news articles, speeches, videos, feeds to his weekly column, Chávez’s Lines, and his weekly television program, Hello President, as well as Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s regular column, Fidel’s Reflections, and section featuring suggested books such as Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America.

The site will also feature a section called the “people’s wall” where you can leave messages and suggestions to the president. It also links to Chávez’s Twitter account @chavezcandanga, which has gained more than 430,000 followers in just under four weeks, making him the most followed Latin American leader and the most followed Venezuelan.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Additional story at: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5386