Venezuela shuts off CNN in Spanish after criticizing passports story

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Venezuela shuts off CNN in Spanish after criticizing story

Feb. 15, 2017 6:05 PM EST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela suspended CNN in Spanish on Wednesday, shutting off the news channel a few hours after officials angrily criticized a report saying government workers engaged in selling fraudulent passports.

The National Telecommunications Commission announced it initiated the "administrative sanction" because of news stories that it considered "direct aggressions" against Venezuela.

The agency did not cite the passport story, but earlier in the day other government officials held a news conference to dispute the CNN story.

CNN aired a report on Feb. 6 based on a whistleblower's allegations that Venezuelan officials had been selling passports from the country's embassy in Iraq to people of Middle Eastern origin, including a few members of terrorist groups.

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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b272e0252b0f40cfaa78b8d52aa5dc29/venezuela-shuts-cnn-spanish-after-criticizing-story

[Marksman_91]

1. Getting shut down by the government is the highest badge of honor a news channel could have

Kudos to CNN for continuing with exposing the corrupt dictatorship that is the Chavista regime.