Venezuelan Human Rights, (Venezuelan analysis)

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Message to Frank Smyth, watch that festering piffle called Fox and then tell me about a lack of professionalism. Twit.

Washington DC, Oct. 22, (Rossana Rodríguez). Venpres. - Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Division of the Americas for Human Rights Watch, reaffirmed that in Venezuela complete freedom of expression exists. He made the comments during a breakfast with non-Governmental Organizations, where the Proposed Law of Social Responsibility in Radio and Television was discussed in the residence of the Ambassador of Venezuela, Bernardo Alvarez.


Vivanco endorsed the declarations of the Minister of Communications and Information, Jesse Chacón, and of the Infrastructure Minister, Diosdado Cabello, by stating that, “Venezuela enjoys the amplest margins of freedom expression. Also, in Venezuela democracy reigns and freedom of expression is exerted in the fullest terms.”

On the other hand, Frank Smyth, representative in Washington DC of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, said that there is a lack of professionalism and much partisanship among journalists in Venezuela. He also expressed a concern with the Proposed Law, which gives the impression that social responsibility and freedom of expression are two different issues.

With regard to this idea, Minister Chacón explained that there are different ways of seeing the media and that the one that the Venezuelan government maintains and supports is one where, "yes there is a social responsibility when you control a media outlet and this is established in the Venezuelan Constitution and UNESCO, for its part, ratifies that the rights of the children and adolescents are supreme."