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In reply to the discussion: At least eight people shot in protests in Valencia, north Venezuela [View all]Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)10. If that's the case, why doesn't Maduro just yank their license? His government's good at that.
Once-defiant Venezuelan TV goes quiet amid opposition protests
By Brian Ellsworth
CARACAS Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:38am EST
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.
President Nicolas Maduro, who was elected last year after Chavez's death from cancer, scoffs at allegations that his government has restricted free speech, insisting he is simply seeking to prevent the media from causing panic. 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.
"We are deeply concerned about the attempts at creating an information blackout by threatening local media and censoring international media that provide information about events that affect the country's citizens," Venezuela's main reporters' trade union said, also criticizing NTN24's removal from cable.
The political turnaround in Venezuela's broadcast media has happened steadily over the last seven years, beginning with Chavez's 2007 move to take the fiercely critical RCTV station off the air by denying a renewal of its broadcast license.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/venezuela-protests-media-idUSL2N0LJ0VF20140219
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Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
OP
Where have you been? He's already been blamed repeatedly. He's a lightning rod:
freshwest
Feb 2014
#57
Obama's everywhere. He's busy destabilizing the Ukraine according to Pooty Poot, all the while....
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2014
#86
I don't know, maybe to give the government an excuse to crackdown the opposition?
flightplan
Feb 2014
#15
That is exactly what the RW wants. This is typical of RW tactics in South America.
Zorra
Feb 2014
#21
If that's the case, why doesn't Maduro just yank their license? His government's good at that.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2014
#10
she has died according to this non-El Universal source, hope you feel better
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#17
you didn't believe the source, I posted that because its in English for the benefit
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#20
here you go, no your video is propaganda from Telesur. Government established and funded
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#23
You have failed to prove how this is the responsibility of the Venezuelan government.
PoliticalPothead
Feb 2014
#28
he hasn't done mierda, the murder rate has risen every year since Chavez came to power
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#29
do you have any evidence that Lopez ordered the opposition to shoot themselves?
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#33
Do you have any evidence that Maduro ordered anyone to shoot demonstrators?
PoliticalPothead
Feb 2014
#34
I didn't think so. thats just because fortunately they are poor shots and missed the opposition
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#35
Or maybe the opposition are poor shots and missed the pro-gov protestors.
PoliticalPothead
Feb 2014
#36
I just posted in #29 that a government security agent was arrested for the murders of 2
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#37
I am not afraid of you tube and other sources of information that show the events
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#46
No, the police in Ven are national so the president does in fact have ultimate responsibility
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#50
all you did is cite an article from a chavista supporter, and you didn't refute any of my comments
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#42
Nope. It's more like the "radical opposition is attacking the moderate opposition in order to
PoliticalPothead
Feb 2014
#87
I do not frequent right wing sites so I will defer to your knowledge on that
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2014
#49
La Nueva Televisora del Sur, C.A. is a public company which has some Latin American governments as i
El_Johns
Feb 2014
#75
What Chavez has done is irrelevant - he isn't President anymore. Maduro is no Chavez.
chrisa
Feb 2014
#94
I never referred to Maduro supporters as "Chavestias," and who has is irrelevant.
chrisa
Feb 2014
#96
"Say what you want but the oil companies want that damn oil, and you want to help them get it."
EX500rider
Feb 2014
#103