More trouble in Caracas

[Disco_Destroyer]

As much as its clear that these private US/corpoarate backed media outlets had much to answer for over the coup attempt I don't think aban will solve anything


Date: Fri 25 May 2007 23:01
From: Venezuela Solidarity Campaign


With the private TV channel RCTV about to be taken off the air on
Sunday May 27th at 11:59pm sporadic incidents have been occurring in
Venezuela as the rancid, non-democratic opposition tries to
destabilize the country any way it can.

* A camera crew of state TV station VTV was attacked in Táchira
state by students protesting at the "state of the country" and the non
renewal of the RCTV broadcasting license

* In the Central University in Caracas well-known talk show of
VTV host Jorge Arreaza was surrounded and verbally attacked with
megaphones calling him a "fascist" as he went to give a class on
international affairs. The same reasons were given for the aggression
- broadcasting license of RCTV

* Communications of the Metropolitan Police were interrupted by
some one calling for an armed rebellion against the government.
Pamphlets calling for an armed uprising were also distributed in
several Metropolitan Police Stations in the capital as well as calling
on the police to go on strike on Saturday May 26th.

* Declassified documents from the US State Department have
revealed the names of "opposition journalists and news anchors"
received payments from the US government in 2003 and 2004.

The RCTV case has become a "cause celèbre" for the splintered
Venezuelan opposition since it was the main channel which fed their
point if view with "news and opinions" designed to delegitimize the
government and President Chávez in particular. Tactics ranged from
phtoshopping pictures, spreading rumors, manipulating economic
information, arbitrary media attacks on ministers and a general scorn
for the majority of the Venezuelan people, especially the poor and
underprivileged.

For remainder of aricle see

http://venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/ven/web/2007/tension_rises_rctv_fasc ists.html