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...long ago, Lorena Dominguez looked forward to the future. She had a well-paid job at the Citroën automobile factory in Vigo, the town in northern Spain where she had grown up. She had recently moved in with her boyfriend Oscar, and had put her own apartment on the market. The two spent their weekends hanging out with friends in Vigo's lively waterfront cafés and were planning to travel this summer. It wasn't a bad life for the 23-year-old daughter of a longshoreman and a housewife...
...Knapp's news show came on July 15, following the wave of killings. After justifying the attacks on police, the caller appeared to offer a truce. "What we want is peace and tranquility," he said. "We want to achieve a national pact." The government of Felipe Calderón was quick to reject any negotiation with the gangs and ordered a troop surge in Michoacan to 5,500 police and soldiers to fight La Familia. "The federal government does not ever dialogue, does not negotiate, does not reach deals with any criminal organization," Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said...
Perhaps more important, the Globovisión feud points to how the U.S. and Venezuela can prod each other to better hemispheric images during the Honduran crisis. The "do something" remark was vintage Chávez, but it also reflected a growing concern in the hemisphere and beyond that Obama isn't exerting enough pressure on Micheletti, and therefore may not be as committed as he has declared to reversing Washington's long history of aiding military coups against leaders who aren't necessarily U.S allies. Likewise, Chávez needs to realize that his calls for Micheletti's regime...
...Globovisión flap actually offers useful lessons in how the U.S. and Venezuela, the standard bearer of the Latin left, can bridge their Caribbean-size divide and help thaw the hemisphere's cold-war air. Clinton gave Globovisión an interview in no small part because the network has been on the receiving end of what it complains are the autocratic tactics of Chávez, who critics say has undermined Venezuela's democratic institutions even though he's been democratically elected three times since taking power a decade ago. This month his government is set to revoke...
Still, Clinton might have chosen a smarter channel for voicing those concerns. Globovisión's gratuitous anti-Chávez crusade is hardly a paragon of media professionalism. At a time when Clinton is condemning the Honduran coup, it rankles Chavistas that she'd promote a network that unabashedly backed a similar overthrow attempt seven years ago. Obama reached out to an often hostile Arab world by granting his first foreign media interview as President to al-Jazeera. Clinton's comments may have resonated in Venezuela and Latin America more effectively had she shared them with Telesur or other...