Radio broadcast to discuss referendum on Chavez recall; The Miami Herald July 29, 2004
The Aug. 15 referendum on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's rule will be discussed today during a live radio broadcast in Miami.
''The Venezuelan Referendum: Is Chavez On His Way Out?'' will be broadcast from 3 to 4 p.m. on WLRN-FM (91.3). [this station broadcasts on the web: http://www.wlrn.org/]
Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer will moderate the discussion.
Panelists will include Maria Corina Machado, director of Sumate, a Venezuelan civic organization that helped organize the recall; Beatrice Rangel, vice president and senior advisor to the chairman of the Cisneros Group of Companies, and Julio Borges, national coordinator of Primero Justicia, an opposition minority party and a congressman for the state of Miranda in the National Assembly.
Other panelists will be Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, and Andres Izarra, spokesman with the Venezuelan embassy in Washington. The forum is sponsored by The Herald and WLRN radio.
