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Bello, Iraxis

Iraxis Bello is a journalist who received her degree from the Central University of Venezuela. She works in the international section of the daily newspaper El Universal, and has ample experience covering political and social events for various media. She received a Master’s in International Relations and Communication from the Complutense University in Madrid.

ARTICLES (1)

Venezuela does not want another Putin

The supporters of the “No” to the constitutional reform achieve a minimal victory

By Iraxis Bello, 13th November 2007

The hard-fought result of the referendum for the constitutional reform that President Hugo Chávez attempted to push through, evidence for the fact that Venezuela continues to be polarized into two sides without accepting any middle ground, with the social and political consequences that this entails. The triumph of the No is the Venezuelan society’s rejection of another Putin, and apart from that provides the leaderless political opposition, which now has no excuse to not get organized with an opportunity.