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Channel 8, a critical TV station with the government, has been bought by a consortium created by presidents Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chávez. Details of the transaction had been kept secret, and Ortega’s possible control of the channel raised concern this week about attempts to silence the opposition.
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Free media in Venezuela has suffered another blow, with RCTV removed from cable platforms. Daniel Duquenal reports
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Venezuela’s media regulator has ordered that RCTV be removed from transmission by cable providers. RCTV’s terrestrial licence was revoked in 2007, in an act seen by many as revenge for the station’s support for a coup against President Hugo Chavez in 2002.
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Read Daniel Duquenal’s report “Chavez’s war on independent media“
A Caracas court ordered the arrests of two people allegedly involved in the attacks last week that left 12 journalists hurt when they were demonstrating in favor of freedom of expression. All of the journalists who were handing out leaflets to motorists and pedestrians on a busy street in the capital are employees of the Cadena Capriles group, one of Venezuela’s biggest media companies. Read more here