the protests will (still) not be televised

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/venezuela-protests-media-idUSL2N0LJ0VF20140219

- Twelve years after they played a key role in a coup, Venezuelan television networks have so heavily scaled back their coverage of anti-government protests that critics are decrying a "media blackout" that helps the government cling to power.

Stations that openly encouraged Venezuelans to take to the streets in 2002 and helped trigger the coup that briefly ousted socialist leader Hugo Chavez are now offering minimal real-time coverage of nearly a week of anti-government protests.

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When security forces arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on Tuesday, bringing tens of thousands of supporters into the streets to block the path of the vehicle carrying him, networks that for years covered every twist and turn of Venezuelan politics offered almost no live coverage.

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But he drew criticism from press freedom groups including Reporters Without Borders by ordering a Colombia-based news channel NTN24 to be removed from cable signal after it broadcast live coverage of violence that started last Wednesday.

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1. Photo of armed CIA-backed grade-school kids protesting against armored National Guard

SCARY!!! Those kids simply look DEADLY

UPDATE! Another picture

:large

They sure don't look like oligarchs to me