''Correo del Orinoco '' (the ''Orinoco Post'') is a

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n newspaper launched in 2009 with government backing. (Carroll's article can also be accessed a
Chavez in driver's seat as he silences his critics

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. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2015.) It is named for its nineteenth-century predecessor, which under the patronage of

Simón Bolívar Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and B ...

promoted Venezuelan independence. It uses the slogan "the artillery of thought". The original ''Correo del Orinoco'' was published on the

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, but the modern newspaper is based in Caracas. The newspaper is affiliated to the

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and the

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. In 2010 the ''Correo del Orinoco'' launched a weekly English-language edition, ''Correo del Orinoco International'', with

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as its editor. On 12 January 2016, Desirée Santos Amaral, a former Minister of Communication and Information, became the new editor of Correo del Orinoco. The previous editor was Vanessa Davies, a journalist and a political activist for the

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