Talk:Eva Golinger

Sources

• Carroll, Rory (7 March 2010). "Why being a satirist is no joke in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela". Guardian online. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• Olivares, Francisco (20 November 2009). "Bases of discord". El Universal. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• Garcia Nevett, Isabel (26 March 2005). "Fees are in US dollars". El Universal. Retrieved 10 March 2010. (Disclaims some info in book, VIO connections)
• "Eva Golinger dennounces US intervention to "destroy" the Venezuelan revolution". El Universal. 10 August 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2010. On US "intervention"
• "Exiled dissenter denies involvement in plot to assassinate Chávez". El Universal. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2010. Interesting, but not surprising.
• Golinger, Eva (22 January 2010). "Announcing Venezuela's First and Only English Language Newspaper The Correo del Orinoco International". Center for Research on Globalization. Retrieved 10 March 2010. Frequent contributor, About us
• (in Spanish) Da Corte, Maria Lilibeth (10 June 2007). "Para Eva Golinger 'Globovisión debería ser un canal por cable'". El Universal. Retrieved 10 March 2010. (Interview, some personal background)
• (in Spanish) Da Corte, Maria Lilibeth (26 May 2007). "Eva Golinger alertó sobre periodistas 'empleados' de EEUU". El Universal. Retrieved 10 March 2010. On journalists
• (in Spanish) "Presentaron el Código Chávez de Eva Golinger". El Universal. 22 March 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2010. On book launch
• I am not familiar with this source, but it contains information that needs to be researched for possible inclusion here.
  • Carson, Roy S (9 March 2010). "Roy S. Carson: The very sad fact is that Cindy Sheehan is misinformed!". pr-inside.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010.

I can find nothing to support the notion that the $3 million dollars she got from Chavez was somehow a "grant", as if anyone (for example, Sumate or X-Ray of a Lie) could apply for a grant. The Ven. govt source says only they gave her funds; that's what we should say, in the absence of anything else. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:05, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

"grant" does not imply a competition for funding. Generally, the essence of a grant is merely about the transfer of funds and the relationship between the bodies giving and receiving. There is no definitional requirement for the allocation process to be open or competitive. Rd232 ^talk 21:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

• The Guardian calls it a "state-backed" newspaper-- sames as state funded. Please don't do OR on the meaning of grant: if we don't have a source saying that, and we do have sources saying it's state-funded, that's what we report. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:15, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
  • semantics aside about "grant", we should not give a false impression. Did you notice my point in a section above about the domain name? That, plus other sources including Carson are fairly clear about the relationship with the state. Rd232 ^talk 21:19, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

    Rd, who is Carson and pr-inside? Is that reliable? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

    • • pr-inside is just a Press Release farm; it's not a source. Carson is a journalist, and editor/publisher of vheadline.com. Rd232 ^talk 08:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

    • Guardian calls it "state-backed", that covers either word (funded or grant). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
      • We now have three sources referring to it as "state-backed" (in addition to the primary source showing funding), and that is the only wording I found. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
        • and in addition to the website being gob.ve ... Rd232 ^talk 08:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Lexis Nexis

• Dudley, Steven (28 November 2005). "Accusing U.S., finding fame". The Miami Herald. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Eva Golinger's peculiar rise to fame in this country started when the Venezuelan American wiggled her way onto President Hugo Chavez's Sunday TV and radio program to show documents she says prove a U.S. involvement in a 2002 coup against Chavez.
  • "I fought hard for that," she says, recounting how she chased Chavez around the country to arrange her appearance in 2004. "I got thrown off an airplane. I was abandoned on an air base with a briefcase full of more than 2,000 documents."
  • "There was interest from above" to publish and distribute it, she acknowledged.
  • Cuba has printed more than 100,000 copies since March, she says, and various Venezuelan publishers have printed several thousand more. Many copies are given away at events sponsored by the Venezuelan government, and Golinger says she has not made much money on the venture.
  • Golinger was born in Venezuela but grew up in the United States and graduated from law schools at the City University of New York and the University of New Mexico. She returned to Venezuela, where she sang in a jazz and rock fusion band, married the guitarist then divorced. She still practices immigration law in New York and has headed a pro-Chavez Venezuela Solidarity Committee there.
  • Her critics say her fame has more to do with her allegations conforming to the Chavez government's views, and call her a tool in the fight with the Bush administration.
  • Critics also say Golinger receives government funding for her work _ a charge she flatly denied _ and that her allegations against the groups that received U.S. funding are putting people in danger.

• Romero, Simon (27 October 2009). "So an American goes on TV and jokes about Chávez ...". The International Herald Tribune. p. 2. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help) (Also available at NYT under title "Filmmaker From U.S. Finds Foes In Venezuela" if someone has time to search for it.)
  • During a recent appearance on the ABC late-night program Jimmy Kimmel Live, Mr. Moore gave an account - apparently tongue in cheek - of how he drank a bottle-and-a-half of tequila with Mr. Chávez at the Venice Film Festival in September and how he mistook Venezuela's burly foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro, for a bodyguard.
  • Those comments have created an uproar in the Venezuelan capital among some of Mr. Chávez's loyal supporters, known as Chavistas.
  • Michael Moore is a most unfortunate coward, Eva Golinger, an American lawyer who lives in Caracas and who is one of Mr. Chávez's most prominent defenders in international leftist circles, wrote in an essay widely disseminated here that lambasted the filmmaker.

• "Venezuelan officials laud new book seeking to prove U.S. role in 2002 coup". Associated Press Worldstream. 22 March 2005. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Top Venezuelan government officials attended a ceremony launching a new book that seeks to demonstrate U.S. involvement in the short-lived 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez.
  • Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said during Monday night's ceremony that "El Codigo Chavez," by the Venezuelan-American lawyer Eva Golinger, should be "required reading for all Venezuelans."
  • The book, published in Spanish by Fondo Editorial Question, analyzes some 4,000 U.S. documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
  • The U.S. government has denied involvement in the coup, and the NED says its programs are aimed at groups that work to "strengthen democratic processes" irrespective of their political affiliations.
  • An intelligence report from April 6, 2002, five days before the coup, referred to "conditions ripening for coup attempt" and said the plan "targets Chavez and 10 other senior officials for arrest."
  • U.S. officials have said that then-Ambassador Charles Shapiro warned Venezuelan officials about a possible coup before Chavez opponents took control of the government for two days starting April 11, 2002.

• Romero, Simon (9 November 2006). "Venezuela Groups Get U.S. Aid Amid Meddling Charges". The New York Times. p. Section A; Column 1; Foreign Desk; Pg. 3. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Government officials here exploit any example of American efforts to counter Mr. Chavez's influence as evidence of what they see as a looming confrontation with Washington.
  • For instance, Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has organized an event this week to publicize the release of Bush vs. Chavez: Washington's War Against Venezuela, a book by Eva Golinger, an American lawyer who has become famous in Venezuela for detailing the American financing of groups here.

• Ellsworth, Brian (27 January 2005). "Chavez foe accused of treason with U.S. aid". The Washington Times. p. A11. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Miss Machado, a 37-year-old engineer who spent eight years running a shelter for abandoned children, said her work is dedicated to creating a strong civil society to fortify democracy in Venezuela.
  • But U.S. lawyer and pro-Chavez activist Eva Golinger, who accessed documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said the endowment's support was part of a broader campaign to bolster the Venezuelan opposition.
  • "It's not a coincidence that almost all of NED financing in Venezuela has gone to opposition groups," Miss Golinger said. "The funds that went to Sumate were part of the same pattern. They were meant to help remove President Chavez from office, not to promote democracy."

• James, Ian (24 April 2008). "Venezuelan student leader who challenged Chavez wins prize". The Associated Press. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • The leader of a student protest movement that has emerged as a major challenge to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won a $500US,000 (€314,000) prize from a U.S.-based libertarian think tank. The pro-free-market Cato Institute announced Thursday that law student Yon Goicoechea was chosen for his leadership as an advocate for freedom and democracy. Cato released a statement by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, a frequent critic of Chavez, praising Goicoechea as a symbol of young people's "democratic reaction when freedom is threatened."
  • But Eva Golinger, Venezuelan-American lawyer sympathetic to Chavez who has researched public and private U.S. aid to the country, suggested the award is "a way of injecting more funding into organizations and individuals that will promote a U.S. agenda" and U.S.-style economic policies.

• "Chavez in driver's seat as he silences his critics". The New Zealand Herald. 10 March 2010. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Rod Stoneman, executive producer of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a documentary sympathetic to Chavez, lamented state TV's "old East Europe style", but said Western media had its own bias. "There is a tendency to exaggerate problems."
  • Eva Golinger, an author and editor of a state-backed newspaper (emphasis added), Correo del Orinoco, said Venezuela had ample freedoms and media organisations got into trouble only when they broke the law.

• Carroll, Rory (7 March 2010). "Why poking fun at Chavez is nothing to laugh about: As opposition grows and the president polices the press, journalists walk a fine line between expressing their views and ending up in court". The Observer (England). p. 2. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Eva Golinger, an author and editor of a state-backed newspaper (emphasis added), Correo del Orinoco, said Venezuela had "ample" freedoms and that media organisations got into trouble only when they broke the law. In the case of Marquez, prosecutors had not acted on the government's complaints. "Nothing has happened. He is still there. And yet there is a campaign to discredit and demonise the government. Why? To justify foreign intervention and regime change."

• "Venezuela's Chavez vows to forge ahead with land reform". BBC Monitoring International Reports. 22 March 2005. {{cite news}}: |format= requires |url= (help)
  • Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broadcast his regular "Hello, President" radio and TV programme No 216 live from Sabaneta in Barinas State on 20 March. The broadcast lasted for six hours and 23 minutes, and was monitored from Radio Nacional de Venezuela.
  • Referring to Eva Golinger's book, he contended: "The United States and not (Pedro) Carmona - who was an instrument - ousted me. Here is the proof."

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:57, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

 Not done

Deleted sources

Listing here the sources deleted by User:Wikispan [1] twice [2] (please see WP:3RR-- it does not give license to edit war or to revert three times, and at minimum, I know of no valid reasoning for removing veneconomy as a source ... I will look at the rest of these as soon as I have time:

• (in Spanish) "El Código Chávez y los engaños de Eva" (PDF). VenEconomia. Veneconomy. May 2005. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• (in Spanish) "Bautizado libro "El Código Chávez"". Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela. 22 March 2005. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• (in Spanish) "Bautizado el libro USAID, NED y CIA. La agresión permanente". Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela. 21 November 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• (in Spanish) "MInCI bautizará el libro La agresión permanente en la Filven 2009". Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
• cubapolidata (Don't think these next two add anything we don't already have in English).
• cubadebate

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:12, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I do not know if VENECONOMY.COM is a suitable source in a BLP. There is only 1 reference to this non-English website on the whole of Wikipedia. Perhaps somebody with knowledge of its output can access its value. To a more pressing issue, primary sources should be used meagrely, as you yourself agree ("[P]lease refrain from using primary sources, and reference multiple reliable secondary sources that tell the 'whole' story") (diff), and certainly not in a "OMG SHE'S A MEAT PUPPET OF HUGO CHAVEZ!!!1!" WP:SYN kind of way. This is a BLP, and if there exists even the slightest doubt, the material immediately comes out. Let's have balance and proper sourcing. Wikispan (talk) 22:03, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Please don't play the BLP card where it's not applicable: VenEconomy is certainly a reliable source for a book analysis. BLP applies to defamatory statements about the person. Any one from Venezuela knows VenEconomy, but the only person likely to be using them as a source would be ... me ... that explains their absence from Venezuela articles, but they most certainly were once used at Economy of Venezuela (most likely deleted while I wasn't around). And that wasn't synth; we have a multitude of independent, secondary reliable sources that establish her connection to Chavez; please avoid the hysterics. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

I explicitly expressed no opinion on VENECONOMY.COM. The only reason I mentioned the site at all -- the only reason -- is because you brought it up here. It was obviously something that got lost in the shuffle. My concern focused on the heavy use of primary sources. A matter which was of due concern to you on Tuesday, but of no concern to you on Wednesday. Go figure. Kindly pay attention in future. Wikispan (talk) 00:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I've been busy :) I'd like to see some of the rest of you work on rewriting, cleaning up, citing correctly, researching, etc (am I the only secretary here?) instead of just reaching for the revert button if there's a piece you don't like. I'm still getting through everything else above ... slowly. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Ongoing text blanking

... by Evagolinger2 (talk · contribs · logs) including Dec 2017 and Oct 2017.

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:17, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Regarding this series of edits by Evagolinger2 (who say she is Eva Golinger[3]):

• I have not reinstated the information from the New York Times about Golinger's divorce because I am unconvinced of its relevance. However, it is sourced information that well could be included if someone disagrees with me.
• While I understand Evagolinger2 says Eva Golinger no longer writes for Venezeulanalysis or works for Correo del Orinoco, she once did, and that information is well sourced. Golinger has authored a book with the premise that the US intervened in Venezuela (The Chavez Code), that was a frequent charge put forward by Chavez and for which no basis has been found, and our readers need to know of Golinger's connection to Chavez and his administration at the time, even if it is no longer true. Golinger's connection to chavismo is well explained by a high-quality reliable source (The New York Times.)
• VenEconomy was an organization well placed to analyze that book (it was made up of highly respected lawyers, economists and businesspeople in Venezuela). VenEconomy may no longer have a website, but that is related to how many professionals have had to flee the country.
• Finally, as they flee the situation in Venezuela, Venezuelans are now the number one asylum seekers to the United States, making it even more inappropriate to exclude well-sourced information about a New York immigration attorney and her relationship with chavismo from the article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Interview re Chavez

Re, this edit, this quote seems excessive, and the text could be better incorporated. Nonetheless, the El Nacional text can be verified between minutes 40 and 42 of this BBC video. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:23, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Removal of referenced content

@Confidante:, you have removed referenced content from this article in at least three occasions, even when editors have pointed out this out.

Reuter's source says that Golinger is now an immigration lawyer, and is also a host on Russia’s RT Spanish-language television network, The Guardian's that Eva Golinger, an author and editor of a state-backed newspaper, Correo del Orinoco, (...), and the The Center for Public Integrity clerly states Eva Golinger, a writer at the pro-Chavez Web site, Venezuelanalysis.com

Regarding her visit to Venezuela, Monte Ávila's article writes En 1993, visitó Venezuela por primera vez para investigar sus raíces: su bisabuelo, Francisco Calderón, había sido asesinado durante el período histórico del benemérito Juan Vicente Gómez, and furthermore Vistazo describes her as a Telesur journalist (Eva Golinger (periodista de Telesur)).

As such, I kindly ask you to restore the removed text and references and discuss why you believe they are, or at the very least provide reliable sources that contest the current references in the article. --NoonIcarus (talk) 11:50, 1 June 2021 (UTC)