Venezuelan Ministry of Communications and Information

The Venezuelan Ministry of Communications & Information (Spanish: Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación y la Información, Minci) is a ministry in the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.[1] The present minister, since October 2012, is Ernesto Villegas. The previous Ministry was Andrés Izarra,[2] who simultaneously and since 2005 is president of TeleSur, a 24-hour Spanish-language news channel that covers the Americas.

In an interview with El Universal in 2008, then-Minister Izarra described the most important achievements of the ministry since 1999 as having stopped the process of "enclosure" of the communications capability of the state, having recovered communications capability from the state, and success in launching a network of alternative community media[3] in both television in Venezuela and radio. He highlighted the previous situation in which communications were "the private preserve of three or four families", and said that although 80% of the spectrum remained in private hands, the public sector had recovered a large part of the audience.[4] He described the challenge of constructing a system of public television and radio with the public's participation,[5] and of widening the circle of government presentation of its message beyond Hugo Chávez.[6]

Period Minister
13 October 2012 - Ernesto Villegas[7]
December 2010 - 12 October 2012 Andrés Izarra[2]
July - December 2010 Mauricio Rodríguez[2]
? - July 2010 Tania Díaz[2]
2009 - 2010 Blanca Eekhout
2008 - 2009 Jesse Chacón
Dec 2007[8] - July 2008 Andrés Izarra[2]
Mar 2006[9] - Dec 2007[8] Willian Lara
9 March 2005 - Mar 2006[9] Yuri Pimentel
September 2004 - March 2005 Andrés Izarra[2]
? - 2004 Jesse Chacón, Nora Uribe[2]

References

  1. ↑ Official website http://www.minci.gob.ve/
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Spanish), El Universal, 7 December 2010, Designado Andrés Izarra como ministro de Información
  3. ↑ "Lo más importante es haber detenido el proceso de cercamiento a las capacidades comunicacionales del Estado, haber recuperado la capacidad de la comunicación desde el Estado, haber logrado impulsar una red de medios comunitarios alternativos." - El Universal, 10 Feb 2008.
  4. ↑ "Lo más importante que se ha recuperado es la comunicación desde lo público, antes era un coto privado de tres o cuatro familias. La comunicación ahora está en manos del sector público o por lo menos se ha recuperado gran parte, aunque todavía la distribución del espectro radioeléctrico en su mayoría (80%) está en manos privadas, al igual que las audiencias, que es el segundo gran paso que hay que dar." - El Universal, 10 Feb 2008.
  5. ↑ "¿Cómo construimos ahora un sistema de televisión pública con público o un sistema de radio público con público?" - El Universal, 10 Feb 2008.
  6. ↑ (Spanish) El Universal, 10 February 2008, "Haremos una TV pública con público", retrieved 2011-04-04
  7. ↑ (Spanish) Globovision, 13 October 2012, "Conozca el perfil de los seis nuevos ministros designados por el presidente Chávez", retrieved 29 Jan 2013
  8. 1 2 "Andrés Izarra designado nuevamente ministro de Comunicación e Información (MinCI)". Retrieved Jun 16, 2012.
  9. 1 2 Sosa, Matilide. "La comunicación o la Revolución dentro de la Revolución". Retrieved Jun 15, 2012.


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