The evil b*tch is down there every few months. I'd post of picture of her and El Presidente for Life lip-lock soul kissing but it is dinner time.
Posted on 02/06/2007 2:08:51 PM PST by StJacques
The rule of law is disappearing in Venezuela
Marcel Granier, President of Radio Caracas Television (Inter-American Press Agency)
The reaction of President Chavez is verbally violent and crude each time someone dares to have a different opinion.
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President Chavez verbally announced his decision to close Radio Caracas Television, a channel which for more than 53 years and with the best facilities draws the greater audience, moreover of being the television broadcaster that employs the most people in Venezuela. Thus culminates a long chain of aggressions against journalists, employees, managers, and shareholders of the independent media. He is trying to limit the right to entertainment which Venezuelans like and to information they trust, impeding citizens who formulate proposals, denunciations, and demands, eliminating the pluralism of information and opinion programs, making the free flow of thought and information impossible in order to obtain a system which the government itself defines as the "communicational and informative hegemony of the state."
The 14th of July, 2006, President Chavez, dressed in a military uniform, gave a speech on the delivery of Kalashnivkov AK-103 assault rifles. Taking a rifle and pointing at a television cameraman he warned: "With this rifle, which has a range of a thousand meters, you (the cameraman) stop yourself there above and I, with good aim, give it to the little red light that your camera has." Later he announced: "It is necessary to review the television broadcaster licenses."
Other government functionaries would repeat the threats, while they praised the media that had changed its editorial line: "There are qualitative changes in the programming ... there are other cases in which that change is not observed, that rectification," remembering that the government "has the ability not to renew a license."
The 3rd of November, 2006, the President repeated his threat: "I only remember those ... who next year ... it's hardly surprising what I'm saying ... there will not be more licensing of some television channels ..."
The 28th of December, the President, again in military dress, announced that RCTV's license would not be renewed. "The measure is already drawn up, so they're going to turn off the equipment ... the license expires in March." Two weeks later, in the National Assembly, he affirmed that the RCTV license ends in May, 2007. The same contradiction over the date exists in declarations of other government functionaries.
President Chavez later began a defamation campaign against RCTV and its directors, through notices paid for with public funds.
The 13th of January, in his annual message to the National Assembly, he changed his speech anew and affirmed: "That broadcast signal belongs to the Venezuelans and it will be nationalized for the Venezuelans ... RCTV has a few days left ... they're squealing, they're stamping their feet; whatever they're doing; the license has ended."
At RCTV we had not been officially informed of anything upon which they based themselves nor of what they accused us of doing. They thus violated the presumption of innocence, there was no due process nor did the right to defense exist.
Such actions transgress norms expressed in the Constitution of Venezuela, the American Convention on Human Rights and the Interamerican Democratic Charter. They are political pressures against independent communications media, a clear example of abuse of power and a pretended legal justification never proved. Thus violated are the right to work in this media, the principle of political pluralism and, of course; the freedom of thought, expression, and information of the millions of citizens who will lose the freedom to look for and to receive information and ideas of every nature guaranteed by the American Convention on Human Rights.
A convincing proof of all this was the statement of January 8 of Andres Izarra, President of Telesur and ex Minister of Communication: "It is necessary to elaborate a new plan ... towards the communicational and informative hegemony of the state."
A growing number of union and human rights organizations are warning about the RCTV case: Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, International Association of Radio Broadcasters, International Press Institute, Reporters without Borders, Interamerican Press Society, and others. But the reaction of President Chavez is verbally violent and crude each time someone dares to have a different opinion. He says and repeats that the decision was taken: "RCTV has a few days left ... they're squealing, they're stamping their feet; whatever they're doing, it's over ..."
"a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object" - c'mon, Venezolanos, put your blood where your machismo is! Lots of words by the Venezuelan rabiblancos, but no real action. It's a marvelous country with a great history, which Chavez is stealing.
Colegio Internacional de Caracas Alumnus
Any chance that we're setting up a very powerful broadcast in Aruba or Internation Waters to give information (and fuel dissent) to the public? I bet the odds are good we already have something similar using radio waves for broadcasts to Venezuela.
So sad to see such a promising country be devoured by the same type of people the left love. Has Cindy Sheehan been down there lately?
How long would Hugo last if the price of oil were to head down steadily for a long time?
It is only the beginning...
Just think of it as the Venezuelan version of the Fairness Doctrine.
The evil b*tch is down there every few months. I'd post of picture of her and El Presidente for Life lip-lock soul kissing but it is dinner time.
Bingo! Chavez is just imposing the "Fairness Doctrine"!
Have you noticed the complete SILENCE OF THE LEFT on what Chavez is doing in Venezuela (other than laudatory articles in ISO Magazine, WWP, etc).?
Also, the silence of most Democrats in Congress is deafening. How about people contacting their representatives and asking them (in writing), whether they are concerned about this Castro-junior.?
Hillary's kind of guy.
The leftist apologists don't care that he's shutting down RCTV, because they accuse it of sedition against the government, and thus it deserves to be shut down:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/01/venezuelas-rctv-acts-of-sedition.html
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