Posted on 05/29/2007 2:09:53 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
Latin America's leading newspapers devoted their Monday editorials to the discontinuation of 53-year old private TV channel Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV). They all claimed that the arbitrary measure taken against an enterprise that pioneered TV broadcasting in Venezuela was "a step backwards" in the freedoms of the country and the whole region.
Editor of Venezuelan evening newspaper Tal Cual Teodoro Petkoff pointed out in the Argentinean Clarín daily that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is pressing ahead with "his plans to set up a mass media hegemonic position." In this regard, he said that if the excuse not to renew a broadcasting license for RCTV was "its involvement in a coup", then Venezuelan TV channel Venevisión "should have been taken off the air a long time ago."
Brazilian Jornal do Brasil asserted that the Venezuelan ruler's decision on RCTV was "a slap on Latin America's face" and regretted the fact that "the stable democracies in the region, including Brazil, were unable to prevent another hazardous demonstration of contempt for freedom."
In an editorial headlined "Another stair", Uruguayan newspaper El País said that "neo-totalitarianism" is a form of government that is beginning to spread "dangerously" to all Latin America. For this daily, President Chávez did refuse to renew a license for Radio Caracas Televisión because it "was not submissive."
Paraguay's ABC Color daily front page, headlined "Chávez kills freedom in Venezuela", claimed that the discontinuation of RCTV entails "a turn towards totalitarianism."
La Prensa newspaper from Panama said that President Chávez "is about to become an autocrat" and that the two remaining powers in the Venezuelan state, that is, the Legislature and the Judiciary, bowed silently down to the move against Radio Caracas Television. Another Panamanian daily, El Siglo, asserted that, with the failure to renew a broadcasting license for RCTV, an inalienable right was mortally wounded in the hands of the Venezuelan ruler, whom they call "the Americas' new dictator."...
Cuban Communist Party's Granma was practically the only one regional newspaper to declare itself in favor of the non-renewal of RCTV's broadcasting license. "Thousands of Venezuelans took the Caracas streets to welcome the launch of (Televisora Venezolana Social) TVes and the closure of RCTV, a TV station that instigated the 2002 coup and nationwide oil strike that wreaked havoc in the country's economy," said the Cuban newspaper.
Censorship, a new Kalisnikov factory, nationalization of industries and visits from Dictators.
What’s next?
The Democrats will attempt to do this to talk radio and the Internet.
I have no doubt that you are right.I think they’ve already started.
And yet Liberal-Americans consider Hugo Chavez to be a hero.
Communism always requires totalitarianism and mind-control, otherwise the public rises up and overthrows communism. Venezuela will sink deeper into communism for a few more years. The people will get poorer. The smart ones will escape to the United States.
I should call Joe Kennedy and see if he can justify this.
I think a lot of neighboring countries know that once dictators have control within their borders they start to feel the need to share their newfound joy.
You are correct. This “new” Communism in the US will be under the “kinder, gentler” image of “environmentalism” but the end results will be the same, as always.
Funny, how so many people are so easily duped into this stupidity. Long ago in the 50s as a kid, I remember a quote from a Hungarian about being “...amazed at how quickly Communism took over the country”, it was the farthest thing from his (and many people’s) mind. And look how long it takes (in all examples) to be defeated, sometimes it ISN’T defeated, the country is just destroyed, cf. Cuba.
Just one step?
Right. How about a u-turn.
What’s next?
Agrarian reform. Don't forget agrarian reform AKA farm theft.
Above is the link to the Daily Kos and his apologist writings about Chavez's take over of the TV station. Apparently, sucking up to dictators is his bag.
Yes, I read the Kos stuff earlier. What idiots. DU, to its credit, did work itself up into a lively debate, with some of them actually grasping the truth of what is happening in Venezuela and giving Chavez the thumbs down. It was cute, kind of like watching kitties take their first, hesitant steps, in the case of DU, toward rationality.
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