Rights groups condemn crackdown on Venezuela TV

[Bacchus4.0]

The organizations Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders criticized the government's actions against the country's only staunchly anti-Chavez channel, Globovision.

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Globovision had been showing clips in which it replayed remarks by Chavez, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, and Venezuela's attorney general.

In them, the channel questioned the constitutionality of putting off the ailing president's scheduled Jan. 10 inauguration for a new term while he remains in Cuba more than a month after undergoing cancer surgery. The opposition had also opposed such a delay, but the Supreme Court ruled that Chavez can be sworn in later on.

The National Telecommunications Council on Wednesday opened an investigation aimed at imposing sanctions against Globovision. Pedro Maldonado, the agency's director, said that the channel had manipulated information and that it's illegal for TV stations to show programming that "generates anxiety in the citizenry or disturbs public order."

http://news.yahoo.com/rights-groups-condemn-crackdown-venezuela-tv-170302512.html

[Zorro]

1. The Venezuelan government has executed an institutional coup d'etat

and they will brook no media criticism -- or even discussion -- of their extraconstitutional actions.

Sounds like a progressive democracy to me.

[joshcryer]

2. Yep, and no one in Latin America is condeming it.

Primarily because they probably think Chavez will kick it soon and this is just a "temporary coup."

But if he's kept on life support for 4 years?

[Bacchus4.0]

3. Cuba is in charge now n/t

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