A decade with Chávez: Journalism, media and politics in turbulent times

CADAL and the careers of Communications and Political Science of Universidad de Belgrano organized the conference ''A decade with Chávez: Journalism, media and politics in turbulent times'' with Venezuelan journalist Andrés Cañizález as keynote speaker. The event took place at a classroom of UB's main building with students, journalists and diplomats in the audience.

CADAL and the careers of Communications and Political Science of Universidad de Belgrano organized the conference ''A decade with Chávez: Journalism, media and politics in turbulent times" with Venezuelan journalist Andrés Cañizález as keynote speaker. The event took place at a classroom of UB's main building with students, journalists and diplomats in the audience.

Andrés Cañizález is researcher at Centro de Investigaciones de la Comunicación de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (CIC-UCAB), regarding issues of political communications and freedom of expression. He is correspondent in Venezuela of Reporters without Borders www.rsf.fr He writes articles for the newspapers El Universal (Caracas), Tal Cual (Caracas) and El Tiempo (Puerto La Cruz). Since 1990 and for 12 years he served as correspondent to the news agencies Prensa Latina, Notimex, DPA, EFE and IPS in Habanna, Caracas, Río de Janeiro and Quito. He has covered a dozen Latin American countries for those media. Since 1997 and till 2005, he was correspondent in Spanish of Radio Nederland.

Among his most recent publications: "Crisis of April 2002 and the right to expression and information"; "Free Speech and democracy: indissoluble relationship"; "Hugo Chávez Government and freedom of expression"; "Minimal history of freedom of expression in Venezuela".

He holds a BA in Social Communications - Universidad Católica Andrés Bello – Caracas; a Masters in Political Science and a Ph.D in Political Science from Universidad Simón Bolívar – Caracas. He was fellow of Rockefeller Program of Globalization, Culture and Social Transformations at Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, October 2002 till February 2003.