Then, on Friday night, what history will call "the counter-coup by authentic journalism" began, as the Vheadline.com online newspaper and its editor Roy S. Carson, news editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue and 14 reporters throughout Venezuela began to break the information blockade.
Among many authentic journalists who turned the tide, Carson deserves the democratic medal of valor. At 11 a.m. on Thursday, before the coup occurred, his Vheadline.com website had gone into the shop for maintenance. When it rains it pours: Carson woke up Friday morning recovering from pre-ocular surgery he had received on Thursday, but upon learning of the coup he rose from his bed to change the history of América. His website was inoperative, but Carson, undaunted, began filing email alerts which were published by Narco News, Indy Media, and many others of the Authentic Journalism Renaissance.
At 7:30 on Friday night, Vheadline.com translated and distributed, via email the first decrees of the military-installed regime of oilman Pedro Carmona.
The global distribution of the "Transitional Junta Decree" on the Internet erased, in one fell swoop, all the fictions repeated in the mass media about who was the real dictator:
Caracas, Friday, April 12, 2002 -- 7:30 p.m.
Article 1 - Pedro Carmona Estanga is designated president of the Republic of Venezuela.
Article 2 - The name of the Republic of Venezuela is re-established.
Article 3 - Principal and substitute legislators of the National Assembly (AN) are suspended from their posts…
The decree also delayed new presidential elections until up to a year from now and stated:
"The President in Cabinet will be able to remove and transitionally designate the officials of national, state and municipal agencies to guarantee institutional democracy and the adequate functioning of the stated… The reorganization of public agencies is decreed for the purpose of regaining their autonomy and independence and to ensure a peaceful and democratic transition, "thus dismissing from posts illegitimately held by the president and magistrates of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), Comptroller, Attorney General, OfficialOmbudsman and members of the National Electoral College (CNE)."
The decree also suspended 48 laws passed Constitutionally by the Chavez government and Congress in 2001
Dictatorship vs. Democracy, indeed.
The Vheadline.com archives of its email alerts from April 11th to 13th is now online (the website was back in action by Saturday afternoon) at:
http://www.vheadline.com/
The updates are archived in reverse chronological order (in other words, for a blow-by-blow account, scroll from the bottom up). Historians of the coup, and scholars of the Authentic Journalism Renaissance, will consult those Vheadline.com archives for years to come.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/9316.htm
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ReplyDelete18 Million More!!!! Are you kidding me, and where's the help for Vheadline, they only newssource that brought the truth and stood with democracy and the constitution during the attempted overthrow of the democratic governement in April 2002.
While Danny Glober stood silent and hid in his multi-million dollar home in LA with all the elite, it was Vheadline who covered the truth about
Venezuela....
This is one of the many reason why the Venezuelan people are turning their support away from Chavez.
More and more people are discruntle of his double standars and politics.
While Chavez gives millions to the american actors eliete to film a movie that no one besides chavez really is going to see, Vheadline with it's thousands of readers get Nothing....
Another Shame on You Chavez!!!