Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A little look at the CEPS (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales)

Well, look at this, the people behind the famous "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" poll who is giving Chavez a lot of advantage towards the "other" candidate, more or less a week ago.

More links about the famous poll, and here.

Veneopsa doesn't even have a website. The page of the CEPS doesn't look too professional to me. A lot of links are broken and the link to "asesoramiento internacional" suddenly is under construction. Could it be that shows that they indeed, have Chavismo as a good client, and support their cause?

Some activities and book presentations at the headquarters of the good people of the CEPS:

1) PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO: "COMPRENDER VENEZUELA, PENSAR LA DEMOCRACIA"

Domingo 19 de noviembre, 19:00 horas.
Sede del Club de Amigos de la UNESCO de Madrid (CAUM).
Plaza Tirso de Molina, 8 - 1º. Metro Tirso de Molina.

- Proyección del documental "Venezuela cambió para siempre"
- Presentación del libro de Carlos Fernández Liria: "Comprender Venezuela, pensar la democracia. El colapso moral de los intelectuales occidentales", a cargo del autor.
- Actuación musical a cargo de José María Alfaya
- Invitación a un brindis.

2) MESA REDONDA: "LA DEMOCRACIA VENEZOLANA" FILOSOFÍA POLÍTICA Y ECONOMÍA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN BOLIVARIANA.

Miércoles 22 de noviembre, 13:00 horas.
Sala de Juntas de la Facultad de CC Políticas y Sociología.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Campus de Somosaguas. Línea A.

- Proyección del documental: "Venezuela cambió para siempre" y micros de la campaña electoral.
- Ángeles Díez.- Doctora en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología. Profesora de Análisis Comparado de las Democracias de la UCM.
- Alberto Montero.- Doctor en Ciencias Económicas. Miembro del Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales (CEPS) y Profesor de Economía Política de la UMA.
- Montserrat Galcerán.- Catedrática de Filosofía. Profesora de Historia del Pensamiento de la Facultad de Filosofía de la UCM.
- David Arrabalí.- Miembro de la Plataforma Bolivariana y Observador Internacional en el referéndum venezolano de 15 de agosto de 2004.

3) COLABORACIONES

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO:

VENEZUELA, A CONTRACORRIENTE: LOS ORÍGENES Y LAS CLAVES DE LA REVOLUCIÓN BOLIVARIANA

Juan Torres López (coord.)
Ed. Icaria, 2006

Más información.

So, after 1, 2 and 3... we can see this ONG is totally biased for Chavismo. Obviously the people who work here represent a conflict of interest for this study to be taken objectively. But yet it is taken for many, and as Alek Boyd points out, for the international media outlets, like Yahooo News, Reuters and etc.

What a joke. And yet, the People's Republic of Bolibananazuela has done their share of Goebbelian make up for all to see how respectable these researchers are. They can be very brilliant but it's impossible to deny their slanted bias for Chavismo.

From Alek Boyd's web page:

"Reuters' coverage of late has been an absolute disgrace, with the BBC and AP following a close second. It has printed official propaganda without even bothering in maintaining a semblance of objectivity. Case in point the poll that never was from the Complutense University of Madrid, which was reprinted many times around the globe. Venezuelans still wait an explanation and a clarification note."

The question is, why they are not doing their investigation? (hint: $$$$$)

Dear Sir or Madam,

In response to your email we inform you that it has been passed onto the Dean`s office in case an adequate reply could be given.

However we inform you that the fact that the professors that allegedly conducted the poll are part of the Complutense University does not mean that this University endorses said poll, for this is a job done by these professors in private manner(*), furthermore poll results have been published in official stationary of a foundation, Centre for Political and Social Studies (CEPS in Spanish) which suggest that the poll was conducted by the professors as members of that organization.

Regards,

Information Office
Complutense University of Madrid
Rectorado de la Universidad Complutense
Avda. de Séneca, 2
28040 MADRID
Phone: - 91 4520400
Fax: 91 3943497
email: infocom@ucm.es
http://www.ucm.es/dir/3906.htm

(Hint: $$$$$)

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