Talk:Foreign relations of Venezuela

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Contents 1 heavily biased 1.1 Americentric: 2 Deletion of AP article 3 AP article

[edit] heavily biased

This is a rather heavily biased article favoring the policies of current Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Added the modifier "declared" to the first sentence- whereas the government of Venezuela may declare its objectives to be those listed, it may not be entirely the case in reality, and it is up to the reader to decide whether or not Venezuela is in accordance with its stated objectives after being carefully presented both sides of the issue. I'll try to update this later when I have time.--SZero 03:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Americentric:

Why is the Venezuelan foreign relations page all about American attitudes towards Hugo Chávez!? Why does it have to include the USA at all? I'm sure there are lots of issues that could be discussed about Venezuelan international relations rather than just American hegemonic prejudices. Lets get real - some people need to read Wikipedias policy that articles should be written from a neutral point of view.--Tamatoa 12:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of AP article

An Associated Press article continues to be deleted from this page, "Venezuela's Chavez Says United States Must Explain Reaction To Coup", citing WP:RS. If the Associated Press is not a reliable source, what is? Travb (talk) 23:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It's a citation to Commondreams, which is not the AP. Feel free to provide the AP article.  MortonDevonshire  Yo  · 23:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Commondreams does not actually publish all of its own articles, it often publishes other articles by other news organizations. Please look at the article[1], it is from the "Associated Press". Do you have access to Lexis Nexis? Because I can't see any other organization which actually picked up this article. Would you like me to list all of the newspapers which picked up this story? I hope this clears up the situation.

This is the original cbs report: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/09/60minutes/main508510.shtml . “…The government of the United States…I believe that they really owe an explanation…to the people of the United States and also to us,” JRSP 00:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the reference to a real news source. Commondreams simply isn't a reliable source for news articles and there are plenty of reliable sources for noteworthy news. --Tbeatty 06:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AP article

Here are excerpts of the original AP article. What happens is that often news organization cut down, combine, or even don't carry the AP articles.

In this case, the AP article was pretty much ignored by most media organizations (this is not uncommon), but two newspapers picked up sections of the AP article:

Moved off wiki: http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/106399.html

Hope this helps. Signed Travb (talk) 00:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)