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Pete

08-02-2009, 06:57

UPDATE 2-Venezuela begins shutdown of 34 radio stations

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0146551720090801

"...."We haven't closed any radio stations, we've applied the law," Chavez said on state television. "We've recovered a bunch of stations that were outside the law, that now belong to the people and not the bourgeoisie."........"

And the American Press Cheers.

swpa19

08-02-2009, 07:49

"...."We haven't closed any radio stations, we've applied the law," Chavez said on state television.

And, Zero wants to be just like him when he grows up.

HowardCohodas

08-02-2009, 07:56

And, Zero wants to be just like him when he grows up.

Ouch! I guess the truth hurts.

incarcerated

08-02-2009, 11:48

At the time of this post, Google News does not have a single item about this story. None of the 24 items in it’s World News section deal with Venezuela. After BHO’s siding with Castro and Hugo Chavez on the issue of Honduran rights and sovereignty, Venezuela’s suppression of its own media is an embarrassment to the World’s President. The leader of the free world would condemn Chavez in the strongest possible terms, but that’s not Obama.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=340546&CategoryId=10718

Chavez Closes Down Broadcasters in War Against Venezuela Media

By Jeremy Morgan
Latin American Herald Tribune staff

….Some stations announced that they would continue on the Internet, which the government is likely to find much more difficult to control. That said, the number of households equipped with computers and access to the Internet in Venezuela is relatively small – and more or less non-existent among the poorer classes who make up the ballast of Chávez’s power base.

….International human rights organizations were also appalled. "What we are witnessing is the most comprehensive assault on free speech in Venezuela since Chavez came to power," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. "With the exception of Cuba, Venezuela is the only country in the region that shows such flagrant disregard for universal standards of freedom of expression."

A polling company did a snap survey and claimed that 84% of its sample had been against shutting down broadcasters. Within the total, it added, 67% of the president’s own supporters or chavistas felt the same way.

armymom1228

08-02-2009, 12:08

At the time of this post, Google News does not have a single item about this story. None of the 24 items in it’s World News section deal with Venezuela. .

I am to assume that that sight does not have either an 'Americas' or South Ameican section... I did not have a problem locating it on Al Jazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/08/20098133741167236.html

Team Sergeant

08-02-2009, 12:08

incarcerated

08-02-2009, 13:19

I am to assume that that sight does not have either an 'Americas' or South Ameican section... I did not have a problem locating it on Al Jazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/08/20098133741167236.html

I’m glad that al Jazeera is covering it. As of this moment, there is nothing about it in Google News Canada English version’s World news items. It is in their Venezuela version, but not in the Mexico version. There’s plenty about it if you do a search, but Google’s editors are keeping it out of the headlines. This story cannot help BHO’s poll numbers, which Google news had much to say about yesterday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gn15mEaey8eHk3I5kzN7rbdsUDmAD99QE5M80

Pete

08-02-2009, 14:19

Fox news has a story on it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536185,00.html

"......Chavez said previously that the revoked licenses could be given to broadcasters who share his socialist vision........."

If he says "could" do you think it means "will"?

exsquid

08-02-2009, 16:02

As much as I am looking forward to going to Afghanistan for my next deployment, I would rather liberate Venezuela. Too bad BHO has no interest in keeping LATAM free from tyranny.

x/S

armymom1228

08-02-2009, 23:10

As much as I am looking forward to going to Afghanistan for my next deployment, I would rather liberate Venezuela. Too bad BHO has no interest in keeping LATAM free from tyranny.

x/S

Well, if you wish to bring Socialism to Democratic countrys, I am sure The Community Organizer would be happy to oblige.:munchin

exsquid

08-03-2009, 10:02

"Well, if you wish to bring Socialism to Democratic countrys, I am sure The Community Organizer would be happy to oblige."

Kind of my point.

x/S

Team Sergeant

08-03-2009, 10:03

"Well, if you wish to bring Socialism to Democratic countrys, I am sure The Community Organizer would be happy to oblige."

Kind of my point.

x/S

LOL

armymom1228, you need to keep up!

armymom1228

08-03-2009, 10:50

LOL

armymom1228, you need to keep up!

Forgive me TS,... I am pedaling as fast as I can.. you know us old women.. hotflashes, blonde and senior moments........................:p

incarcerated

08-03-2009, 19:02

It's a Google News headline now!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCcAJIcCkFxq318tiWULvz7P5-nwD99RN4CG1

34 radio stations forced off air in Venezuela

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ (AP) – 1 hour ago
CARACAS, Venezuela — Radio hosts hung their heads as their FM station was forced off the airwaves along with 33 other broadcasters targeted by President Hugo Chavez's government in what critics say is a campaign to muzzle his foes.

For the first time in decades, CNB 102.3 FM fell silent over the weekend after Venezuela's telecommunications regulators revoked some of the 34 stations' licenses and refused to renew others.

But CNB challenged the government action within hours by starting to transmit programming over the Internet. Sportscaster Juan Carlos Rutilo told his online listeners: "Today freedom of expression is being restricted. ... Today you have one less option."

Media groups and human rights activists note more than 200 other stations are under investigation for allegedly not being properly licensed and accuse Venezuela's leftist leader of pursuing a widening crackdown to silence dissent.

In a similar step, one of Chavez's leftist allies, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, announced Monday that "many" radio and TV frequencies will revert to the state over what he called irregularities in their licenses. He gave no specifics.

A majority of the stations affected in Venezuela aired criticisms of the government, though they were not overtly anti-Chavez and much of their programming ranged from American rock to salsa and traditional Venezuelan music....

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/04/venezuela-tv-station-armed-raid

Venezuelan TV station is stormed by supporters of Hugo Chavez

Rory Carroll in Caracas
The Guardian, Tuesday 4 August 2009
Dozens of militant supporters of President Hugo Chavez stormed an opposition TV station yesterday in an escalation of Venezuela's "media war".

Around 30 activists with red berets forced their way into the Caracas headquarters of Globovision, lobbed tear gas and threatened staff with handguns.

The raid came amid a government crackdown on critics of Chavez's socialist revolution, a campaign which human rights groups have condemned as an attack on free speech. In recent days the government has revoked the licences of dozens of radio stations and proposed a law which would jail people deemed guilty of "media crimes" for up to four years.

Footage aired on Globovision showed activists from the UPV, a radical left-wing party which backs the president and dresses in quasi-military gear, arriving on motorbikes and rushing on foot into the station.

The intruders, led by a prominent "Chavista" named Lina Ron, waved banners and reportedly injured a guard and a police officer while tear gas seeped through the complex.

Chavez has repeatedly assailed Globovision – the South American country's last opposition TV network – as an instrument of oligarchs and US imperialists who are waging "media terrorism".

However, the government swiftly distanced itself from the raid. "We condemn this attack energetically and reject this type of violent action against Globovision," said the interior minister, Tareck El Aissami. "We don't accept that violence is the instrument to solve our differences."

Network executives rejected the condemnation as hollow. "I can only think [the attack] was an order from Miraflores," said Guillermo Zuloaga, in reference to the presidential palace. The government has named Globovision as its main target in a "media war" to rebut what it says is a campaign of lies and smears against the revolution. Authorities last month fined Globovision $2m for back taxes and officials have twice raided its president's property, saying he illegally resold cars and broke environmental regulations by keeping stuffed animals.

The government also opened an investigation against the channel for "inciting panic" after it reported on a small earthquake recently which affected Caracas....

armymom1228

08-03-2009, 20:05

Richard

08-03-2009, 20:31

So how can Hugo stop the internet?

Exactly - or how can he stop the people from receiving the broadcasts from neighboring or global news radio networks?

When will the people have enough???

For QPs and the NCA - that is always the $64k question. ;)

Richard's $.02 :munchin

Team Sergeant

08-04-2009, 07:29

CNB 102.3 FM

So how can Hugo stop the internet?

The same way China, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc etc etc etc does. It can be done, I'm sure Hugo Chavez has been in contact with some of the hardline socialist or commie countries and asked "How do I shut off or limit the internet in my country?"

Someone needs to give Hugo a dirt nap.

Team Sergeant

incarcerated

08-04-2009, 10:06

CNB 102.3 FM

http://radiotime.com/station/s_14016/CNB_1023.aspx

So how can Hugo stop the internet? All one needs is a laptop and a wifi connection. It is going to get real interesting. When will the people have enough???

During Friday prayers given by Rafsanjani in Teheran on July 17th, opposition protestors outside the mosque began chanting “Death to Russia.” Russia’s inclusion in the Two Minutes’ Hate is rare. At the height of the early protests, Ahmadinejad had traveled to Moscow. The opposition believes that he obtained the services of Russian technicians and advisors to assist in the supression of the protests.
Similar assistance would probably be available to Chavez from Russia or China. Both would probably be very happy to expand their influence in the Western Hemisphere.

incarcerated

09-06-2009, 23:04

A Hugo Chavez update:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1E4JM9o1-zvbhx8AKLlGiG9TIMwD9AGPFRO0?index=5

Critics march against Chavez across Latin America

By SUSANA LONDONO (AP) – 2 days ago
BOGOTA — Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling.

The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.

The Honduras march was led by Roberto Micheletti, who became president when Chavez ally Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a June coup.

"Any politician who tries to stay in power by hitching up with a dictator like Hugo Chavez, he won't achieve it," Micheletti said. "We'll stop him."

Chavez, who was traveling in Syria, ridiculed the protests, likening Micheletti to a gorilla and saying: "Those who want to march, march with 'Goriletti,' the dictators, the extreme right."

Chavez supporters held smaller counter-demonstrations, including a Caracas rally that drew nearly 200 people. Police in Quito, Ecuador, intervened to keep pro- and anti-Chavez groups from clashing...

Photo caption:
Demonstrators hold a sign that reads in Spanish "No more Chavez" during a protest against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. People in several cities worldwide protested Friday against Chavez's government. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

incarcerated

09-09-2009, 04:01

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL9667896

Venezuela's Chavez accuses Israel of genocide

Wed Sep 9, 2009 4:17am EDT
PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, telling a French newspaper that the bombing of Gaza late last year was an unprovoked attack.

"The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They're doing it openly," Chavez said in an interview with Le Figaro published on Wednesday.

The Venezuelan president, who has just completed a tour of Middle Eastern and Arab countries, brushed aside Israeli assertions that its attack on Gaza was a response to rocket fire from Islamist group Hamas which rules the coastal enclave.

"What was it if not genocide? ... The Israelis were looking for an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians," Chavez said, adding that sanctions should have been slapped on Israel....

Richard

09-09-2009, 04:09

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

- Lewis Thomas

And so it goes...;)

Richard's $.02 :munchin

LarryW

09-09-2009, 06:53

Someone needs to give Hugo a dirt nap.

The Bottom Line. :lifter

This bozo does for Venezuela what Mussolini did for Italy.

ryno

09-09-2009, 07:28

What I find the most disgusting is how people who have made millions off the entertainment industry, e.g., Danny Glover and Oliver Stone, consider this tyrant a friend. I guess censorship is okay as long as you are not the one being silenced. We have to have our priorities and I guess freedom is not high on the list anymore. :mad:

Paslode

09-09-2009, 13:43

armymom1228

09-09-2009, 14:35

Chavez reminds me of a neighborhood dog that never shut up... owner was warned and warned to shut the dog up.. someone evern bought an antibark collar for the dog and the owner refused to stop the dog.. one day she woke up and the dog had eaten, as the story goes, a poisoned hot dog... sure was quiet after that..:D Chavez reminds me of that dog.

OTOH, ever notice that at any given point we have a 'yapper' yapping its own version of world politics as it sees it and, of course, accusing everyone and its brother of having smelly undewear and hang nails.. toss a hot dog to one, another pops up. At least this yapper is mildly amusing.

incarcerated

09-09-2009, 14:42

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

- Lewis Thomas

And so it goes...;)

Richard's $.02 :munchin

My bad.
Doing push-ups now...