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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 11:31 AM Nov 2017

TalQual: Another newsprint outlet closed by Chavista hegemony.

The future of TalCual is here
10-30-2017
XABIER COSCOJUELA / @ xabiercosco

Translation: In TalCual we have reflected what happened in the country for 17 years, and we will continue to do so. We have done that by adapting to the environments, to the changes in the editorial consumption of the public, growing and improving to convince more and more

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Translation: "Since then we have been in the sights of the Government, which has applied all kinds of tricks and illegalities to impose its communicational hegemony. We have endured all kinds of attacks. From the Seniat, through the Ministry of Labor to the courts, they have been used to silence us. The trials have multiplied before a justice that has a red bandage in their eyes. As all of the above was not enough, they used the paper supply cut as another tool to achieve censorship.

Since September 2016, this medium has barely received four paper rolls to be printed. That equals just two weekly numbers. The Chavez publications do receive paper from the Maneiro Corporation, also the media that have folded to the communicational hegemony.
We did not do it and we're not going to do it."

-snip-

http://www.talcualdigital.com/Nota/151154/el-futuro-de-talcual-esta-aqui?platform=hootsuite

So, TalCual make a leap into the digital age. Unfortunately, Maduro has been silencing radio and television outlets that he deems "The Enemy of the Revolution", and has suggested that he will end social media in Venezuela in the coming months.
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