Venezuelans Protest As TV Station Shuts
Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets
Monday into a crowd of thousands protesting a decision by President Hugo
Chavez that forced a television station critical of his leftist
government off the air.
Source: Breitbart, May 28, 2007
To Chávez supporters, closing the station rids the
nation of a source of lies and political manipulation. But the move is
also generating massive street protests and worldwide claims of
censorship. For Chávez critics, it represents a move toward
authoritarianism they say is playing out across the globe.
Democratically elected leaders – particularly "petroleum opulists" in
Venezuela, Russia, and Iran – attack dissent by targeting independent
media and civil society groups, say analysts.
Source: Christian Science Monitor (online), May 24, 2007
According to the so-called enabling law, the president
can remake laws for "the construction of a new, sustainable economic and
social model" to achieve an equal distribution of wealth.
Source: BBC News, January 31, 2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will not
renew the licence for the country’s second largest TV channel which he
said expired in March 2007.
Source: BBC News (online), December 29, 2006
In a dramatic step toward Cuban-style communism, the
government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says it will seize more
than 270,000 acres of private property and redistribute it to the poor.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 16, 2005
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