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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela moves against second opposition TV channel
2007-05-29
That didn't take long.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Hours after President Hugo Chavez shut down Venezuela's main opposition broadcaster, his government demanded an investigation of news network Globovision on Monday for allegedly inciting an assassination attempt on the leftist leader.

Chavez took Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, off the air at midnight on Sunday and replaced it with a state-run channel to promote his socialist programs. The move sparked international condemnation and accusations from the opposition that he was undermining democracy in the OPEC nation.

Protests over the closure of RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private channel, simmered in several Venezuelan cities on Monday. In some locations, the police used tear gas to disperse the crowds.

Seizing on the momentum of RCTV's closure, Communications Minister Willian Lara presented a case to the state prosecutor's office saying experts hired by the ministry had found that opposition broadcaster Globovision was inciting assassination attempts on Chavez. As evidence, he cited Globovision showing footage of an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981 accompanied by the song "This Does Not Stop Here," sung by Ruben Blades, now Panama's minister of tourism. "The conclusion of the specialists ... is that (in this segment) they are inciting the assassination of the president of Venezuela," Lara told reporters at the prosecutor's office.
They must be hoping for a Carter appointee as a judge.
Globovision was not immediately available to respond to the government's charge, but one of its reporters at the prosecutor's office said the footage was taken out of context. The journalist said Globovision had been showing archive footage from RCTV accompanied by songs with a farewell theme the week before RCTV's closure.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Name the single, prominent American who has suborned freedom and liberty for the Venezuelans?

Could it be Jimmy Carter
?
Posted by: Caesar Angavigum1967   2007-05-29 12:45  

#3  Hours after President Hugo Chavez shut down Venezuela's main opposition independent broadcaster, his government demanded an investigation of news network Globovision on Monday for allegedly inciting an assassination attempt on the leftist leader.



Just a clarification.
Posted by: DoDo   2007-05-29 12:09  

#2  Here is a webcast from Irene Khan, Sec General of Amnesia International, condemning the Chavez regime.

Oh, the link doesnt seem to be working...
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar   2007-05-29 06:08  

#1  LOL! I see marathon Cuban tractor documentaries soon.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-05-29 03:31  

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