VENEZUELA: Profile: Hugo's Left Hand Woman... American Eva Golinger.

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   Eva Golinger, 37, is a former New Yorker who is constantly writing about the threats to Chavez's “Bolivarian revolution.”
   She edits the English-language edition of Correo del Orinoco, Venezuela’s equivalent of the Cuban newspaper Granma,
     She has even recently traveled with Chavez to Iran, Libya and Syria.
    “I’m a soldier for this revolution. I’d do whatever asked of me for this country,”she said.
    “Golinger has systematically attacked defenders of human rights and freedom of expression by presenting them as puppets of Washington, something far from the truth,” said journalist Andrés Cañizález. “Paradoxically she uses a right established in the United States, of access to public information, which Venezuelans do not have.”

VENEZUELA: Its Dangerous To Be Funny In Chavez-landia Say Humorists.

GUARDIAN.U.K./ Long Opinion Piece /     Satirists must be extremely careful when lampooning Hugo Chavez. A recent column by Laureano Márquez was branded "fascist," incitement for a coup, terrorism and genocide. "It justifies the use of social violence, of civil war, as a way to take power," said minister Blanca Eckhout. She demanded he be prosecuted. Yet satire thrives. "Tonnes of it," said newspaperwoman Eva Golinger. "A flowering," said Márquez. The Tal Cual columnist often uses offbeat topics, such as Tutankhamun, and refers to Chávez by other names, such as Estebán. "It's a code, but people know what I mean." But self-censorship is the rule. "You can say what you want, but you don't know what price you may pay; that's not freedom," sais Marquez.

VENEZUELA: Rabid Chavez Supporters Denounce Filmmaker Michael Moore.

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Filmmaker Michael Moore, during an appearance on late-night TV, told ABC host Jimmy Kimmel how he allegedly drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Hugo Chávez at the Venice Film Festival in September.
Apparently the humorous comments upset some of Chávez’s loyal and sensitive supporters. Chavez is a noted teetotaler.
“Michael Moore is a most unfortunate coward,” said American lawyer Eva Golinger in an essay.