US expels Venezuelan diplomat after cyber-attack claims

[Judi Lynn]

6. Oh, yeah! I thought this crap was settled long ago, didn't you?

You undoubtedly recall that Univision is part owned by Venezuela's biggest media owner, and possibly the wealthiest man in Venezuela, who also participated with the coup plotters in their attempt to seize control of the government long ago, after kidnapping Hugo Chavez at gunpoint, knocking out all independent radio/tv stations in Caracas, the mayor himself sending forces to dismantle a community station in advance.

His name is Gustavo Cisneros, he's known as the old "fishing buddy" of George H. W. Bush, with whom he consulted in a huddle in the Domincan Republic at the resort owned by Cuban "exile" sugar barons, the Fanjul family from Havana/Florida/D.R. immediately after the coup was overthrown by the people on Venezuela, who found out about the coup, in spite of the coup plotters' efforts, filled the streets around Miraflores, and demanded the return of their elected President.

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On the afternoon of the coup [April 12], the plotters, including Carmona, met at the Venevisión television station. “This government was put together at Gustavo Cisneros’ office,” said opposition legislator Pedro Pablo Alcántara (Democratic Action Party). The person who read Carmona’s decree and who Carmona named as attorney-general was Daniel Romero, who had been a private secretary to former President Carlos Andrés Pérez and a functionary in the Cisneros organization.

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/581.cfm



George W Bush, Venuela's largest media owner, Gustavo Cisneros, Pepe Fanjul and brother Alfi Fanjul

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You may recall the Fanjuls were the target of a massive lawsuit, after years and years of suffering in Florida by the sugar cane workers, and also the subject of a huge documentary on the plight of those poor, poor, exploited men who worked as virtual slaves in the sugar cane fields.

I just saw, looking for a photo of the Fanjuls, this article about the abuse they have heaped upon their sugar cane workers in the Dominican Repulbic fields they own! It certainly follows their pattern. Friends of the U.S. power ghouls in the U.S. reich-wing:

"Sugar Babies", the Fanjuls, Miami International Film Festival, and the Knight Foundation

The controversial film documentary, Sugar Babies, will never play at Casa de Campo-- the resort in the Dominican Republic built by the Fanjuls, Florida's sugar barons.

The subject of the documentary is the miserable working conditions and hopelessness of farm workers on Fanjul plantations in the DR.

The documentary had been scheduled to play at the Miami International Film Festival, but was yanked for some unaccounted for reason by Festival staff just days before the festival commencement.

Last week, the film garnered the award for best documentary by the Delray Beach Film Festival. In a press statement, Festival Director Dr. Michael Posner said, "The audience got to see the ongoing atrocities that still exist in the world today."

http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2008/05/sugar-babies-fanjuls-miami.html

He discusses buying Univision:

June 23, 2011, 5:00PM EST Gustavo A. Cisneros on Buying Univision
The Venezuelan media mogul talks about staking his fortune—and his reputation—on a volatile partnership in Hispanic TV in the U.S. As told to Diane Brady

By 1992, I wanted to be in the U.S. market on a big scale. I thought the telenovelas and programming we'd developed in Venezuela could do very well in the U.S., but no one believed me. People thought Hispanics in the U.S. were different and that you had to make TV productions there to capture the experience. Not only was that an expensive proposition, but I didn't think it was true.

Then Univision came up for sale, which was exciting and risky. I had a deep friendship with Mexican entrepreneur Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who had failed in the U.S. market and was itching to get back. Neither of us had enough programming to fill a network, so we decided to join forces. But to satisfy the FCC, we needed an American partner. I introduced Emilio to Jerry Perenchio, who owned a Spanish channel in New York. Unfortunately, they just didn't get along. I had to convince Emilio to like Jerry and Jerry to like Emilio. Jerry wanted to work with only me, but I told him it had to be a trio.

There was so much mistrust going into this that I knew something might fall apart. It was a $500 million bet, and a lot of people had lost money in Hispanic TV. To make this work we had to have strong legal documents: Our lawyers outlined everything so that it didn't matter if we liked each other or not. We had to ensure a governance structure to keep the playing field level, and I felt we needed to be very specific about the management of the company. The two of us who had provided programming had to have our additional contributions recognized. Everything was clear, so nobody had to argue or debate.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b4235088443515.htm

He's still on Univision's Board of Directors:

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Gustavo Cisneros is a member of the Board of Directors of Univision Communications, Inc., Barrick Gold Corporation, and Pueblo International, LLC. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold Corporation. He is on the Board of Advisors for the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chairman’s International Advisory Council of The Americas Society, the Board of Overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth, the Chairman’s Council of The Museum of Modern Art, the Board of Trustees and International Museum Council of The Museum of Television & Radio, and the Board of Directors for the International Council of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

He also serves on advisory boards at some of the most prestigious universities in the United States, including Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

http://ip6.208-100-19.static.steadfast.net/senior-advisors/gustavo-cisneros

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Of course, a friend of the former President, and head of the CIA and CIA guy for YEARS, close to the Batista Cuban a-holes who have been raiding Cuba, murdering Cuban nationals for years, attacking supporters of Cuba all over the world, a man himself who is associated by birth with the pre-revolutionary Cuba, Cisneros without a doubt would be heavily influential in anything which airs on Univision.