Chavez takes a personal role in Venezuela censorship

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:45 AM EDT

Article Source: daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com

At 18:03 a new cadena starts, this time led by Chavez himself. It would last until 21:26, that is a total of 3 hours and 23 minutes of simultaneous broadcast all across the country of ALL TV AND RADIO STATIONS. Only people with cable TV (less than 25% of Venezuela's homes) can escape it by tuning to some foreign network. During all the cadenas time, almost 6 hours on Thursday, private stations lose their advertisement income without any compensation from the state, not even some tax break.

The highlights of the cadena; congratulation by Chavez himself to the Bolivarian students all lined up in the attendance to Chavez; copious insults to the dissenting students and to many opposition activities; step by step "criticism" of Barrios speech with as many allusions as possible as to the unfit nature of his speech; and more, much more in the same perspective. It is to be noted that the insulted students will never be able to exert a right of reply to Chavez in cadena, and even less in front of him. During three hours Chavez insulted a group of people that could not reply, could not protest, and could not defend themselves.

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Now that RCTV has been destroyed, most of the country has only pro-Chavez media available. The opposition station Globovision only reaches Caracas. But even that's not enough for Chavez.

For me, that Thursday a new line has been crossed by chavismo. Be it out of despair because its polls are falling, be it for a deliberate strategy to finish off its opposition, but the line has been crossed.

A line was crossed when the students were summoned by the National Assembly when this one offended them in the first place.

A line was crossed when the chavista hordes were waiting outside.

A line was crossed when the National Assembly and its chavista "students" lost any composure and restraint once the dissident students left.

A line was crossed when Chavez blocked deliberately, without reason, all the info that the country wanted to see, to hear.

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