Media News - Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Venezuelan opposition channel warns against closure
Closing down Venezuela’s last remaining opposition television station would be ‘the beginning of the end’ of President Hugo Chávez’s rule, the channel’s head said in comments published Monday. Station director Alberto Ravell told conservative daily Spanish newspaper ABC said the broadcaster was the only station in Venezuela whose ‘editorial line is not set by the government.’ Last month Chávez refused to renew the broadcast licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), which expired on May 27, on grounds the network was conspiring to overthrow him. Venezuela’s Communications Minister Willian Lara has since accused Globovision of inciting attempts to assassinate Chávez, citing as proof its airing of footage of the 1981 assassination attempt on former pope John Paul II accompanied by a salsa song whose lyrics included the line ‘have faith.’ (AFP via Media Network Weblog)
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