Radio broadcast to discuss referendum on Chavez recall

[Robert Naiman <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.