When I first read your newspaper, on the urgings of a friend who has a Canadian brother and sister living in VZ, I thought you were fairly objective. However, after spending hours going through your categories, and reading many articles in your News, Features, and Opinion Analysis Sections, I find the opposite is true....I would say 8-9 out of 10 articles are obviously slanted towards the present VZ administration. As well as that, your site is very exclusive in terms of what you actually cover. In general, I found that any topic or incident that could not be bent in favor of Chavez and his party, was very thinly covered. Many incidents of national importance or not covered at all, or very superficially.

Case in point: The fact that illegal gold and diamond mining has been going on in a very destructive fashion, for many years, much of it in the pristine Imaltaca ( wrong spelling I know) Reserve. This has been known by the Chavez administration, and yet no serious attempts were made to stop it, up until recently. The environment has been blatantly poisoned, as well as the people downstream, and in the watersheds, of these areas. In the meantime, Crystallex, who was given an Operating contract blessed by President Chavez himself, in a process he call 'a model for the future, ( which specifically gave their mining concession to the CVG), has been deliberately stymied by this administration. Everything has been done that has been required of Crystallex, in this process. In fact, Crystallex has FINISHED all the social projects asked for in their MOC, including building 30 homes for locals, built 2 waste treatment plants, and 1 or 2 water treatment systems, paved roads, trained workers, and built a modern Medical center,( which VZ has yet to supply with medicine, equipment, and Doctors), has over 100 employees, spent 300 million over 8 years or so, all without having received their final permit. Their mining would hire 1500 Venezuelans, and has the highest environmental standards. Much of the environmental damage could have been avoided if Crystallex had received their final permit as planned, in 2006, and then in 2008.

Venezuela would have a secondary economy by this time, second only to the Oil industry, helping to keep the VZ economy on track.

Why has Venezuelanalysis not done an in depth article on this subject?

Pen