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Stephen Gibbs - Venezuela - The Times/Economist/CGTN

Foreign Correspondence

English - January 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 38.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
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What drew so much media attention to Venezuela only a few years ago and why has it fizzled out? Stephen Gibbs (@STHGIbbs), a freelancer based in Caracas, tells us about covering the unrest and his encounters with Hugo Chavez and Maduro. As a former longtime BBC correspondent, Gibbs also talks about covering Cuba - including Castro revealing his relationship with Ernest Hemingway and a chance meeting with a rogue CIA agent.


Countries featured: United Kingdom, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Venezuela


Publications featured: BBC, The Times (of London), The Economist, CGTN


Stephen discusses getting his start writing gossip items and producing news for children (8:36), making the jump to producing the nightly news at the BBC and transitioning to on-camera newsman in Cuba (15:35), meeting Fidel Castro at an event about Ernest Hemingway (23:34), Cuba revoking his media accreditation (28:11), moving to Mexico and covering swine flu there (35:15), going freelance and moving to Brazil and Venezuela (41:36), being in the middle of turbulent Venezuelan politics while juggling assignments from three publications (46:30), a story that got away about a fugitive former CIA agent living in Cuba (55:25), covering the coup that ousted Haiti’s president in 2004 (1:00:20) and finally the lightning round (1:08:20).


 


Here are links to some of the things we talked about:


Stephen’s documentary on Easter Island - https://bit.ly/3zgJT7n


Observer article on fugitive CIA agent - https://bit.ly/32JORO9


Stephen’s interview with Brazil’s Bolsonaro - https://bit.ly/3sQQC6W


Private Eye - https://bit.ly/3qCYQNb


BBC interview with Belarus leader Lukashenko - https://bit.ly/3FNDoeW


Harry’s Garage - https://bit.ly/3eGc4mL


Allen Whicker interviews dictator Papa Doc - https://bit.ly/3zdLRpe


The Quiet American book - https://amzn.to/3mNh6m7


 


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