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?Arti...tegoryId=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.