[New-imc] Provisional IMC Venezuela

[Rosa]

Saludos to all members of the new-IMC list:

 

We from IMC-Brazil have been recently contacted by the people involved in the IMC-Venezuela project, who were very worried about the crisis in their country. They asked us what we could do to help them in the new-IMC process. Since the regular process must be followed step by step, we had the idea to open a subsite in the IMC-Brazil page for the Venezuelans, who would have the status of an IMC-Brazil collective. The regular affiliation process to Indymedia will go on, and when IMC-Venezuela is approved by new-IMC it will succeed the Venezuela collective associated with IMC-Brazil. The main reasons for the immediate creation of a Venezuela webpage within IMC-Brazil are:

 

- Imminent risk of a Pinochet-style coup d'état that would certainly restrict freedom of information in Venezuela.

 

- Media war waged by all the main TV networks, radios and newspapers against the constitutional and regularly elected government, with a 24 hours/day hate campaign targeting the Venezuelan president.

 

- Growing interest by all IMCs around the world, and the public in general, in Venezuelan affairs. One example: the IMC-DC feature about the crisis in Venezuela got a record amount of comments. The Venezuelan people have also a growing interest in Indymedia, for many of them are sending and receiving independent information about their country from IMC Brazil and other IMCs.

 

Please understand that this is an urgent and atypical situation. People are already being killed, the country risks to sink into civil war and turmoil. The people that will run the Venezuela subpage are the same that are already trying to create an IMC-Venezuela in the IMC-Venezuela list, and they complied with the principles of Indymedia and IMC-Brazil in a written statement. They will be supervised and oriented by the Brazilians. Dri, who was dealing with the Venezuela IMC application, said this provisional and urgent IMC was ok. So, we would like to know if there is any objection to the creation of this subpage.

Thank you.

 

Rosa

Brazil IMC.
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