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Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez orders TV station off the air
2010-01-26
"Rahm! Why can't I order Fox off the air!"
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's government ordered cable providers on Sunday to stop showing the popular television station RCTV, which had violated regulations requiring broadcasters to televise the socialist leader's long speeches in their entirety.

The measure sent shudders among press freedom advocates and generated concerns in the Obama administration, which is frequently the target of Chavez's barbs. RCTV has been a target of the government in the past. In 2007, the government declined to renew RCTV's license to broadcast on the public airwaves, forcing the station onto cable.

"This is done without a judge's order, without any administrative hearing," Marcel Granier, director of RCTV, said by phone from Caracas. "In no democracy does this happen. Those in the government simply do not tolerate any medium that tells people how things really are."
Posted by:Steve White

#8  Because Holder and the sorry ass ATF are dragging their ass collecting all those guns from the bible thumping, gun clutching, pickup driving rednecks.

And from people like me, who are much less colorful but equally armed.

Well, armed somewhat, anyway ....
Posted by: lotp   2010-01-26 19:44  

#7  Time to sign a contract with Trinidad for a "Voice of America" station in that Caribbean nation

Good idea - too bad that Obama will then pick Ward Churchill as Foreign Communications Czar.
Posted by: DMFD   2010-01-26 18:40  

#6  Time to sign a contract with Trinidad for a "Voice of America" station in that Caribbean nation.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-01-26 13:50  

#5  Because Holder and the sorry ass ATF are dragging their ass collecting all those guns from , gun clutching, pickup driving rednecks.

HEY, I resemble that remark.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-01-26 11:54  

#4  Welcome to the Workers Paradise! Here's your accordion...
Posted by: mojo   2010-01-26 10:16  

#3  Mr. Spielberg: Isn't Chavez your long admired dictator a groovy guy? See, we need this type of government so we can censor Hollywood, no Mr. Spielberg?
Posted by: HammerHead   2010-01-26 09:19  

#2  "Rahm! Why can't I order Fox off the air!"

Because Holder and the sorry ass ATF are dragging their ass collecting all those guns from the bible thumping, gun clutching, pickup driving rednecks.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-01-26 08:47  

#1  So the Gulag Archipelago era begins for Venezuelans. Business and political leaders won't have it so lucky, but hopefully some of the freedom advocates have also cultivated a strong sense of naturalism, allowing them to subsist on barbecued spiders.
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie   2010-01-26 02:53  

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