There he goes again! Freedom of speech - GONE!

[guyone]

Telemundo: Venezuela Halts Transmission

© 2006 The Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela — Officials identifying themselves as members of a state regulatory agency forced the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo to halt transmission Sunday of its presidential election coverage.

"We're surprised by this," said Pablo Iacub, a member of Telemundo's eight-person team, which arrived last week. "We only want to do our work," he said by telephone.

At least six people who identified themselves as members of the National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL), which regulates electronic media in Venezuela, arrived Sunday afternoon at the hotel from which Telemundo had been transmitting since Friday, said Iacub.

The officials said the network needed permission to transmit and lacking such could not, he said. Iacub said he was unaware of such a requirement but that the Telemundo journalists were accredited with Venezuela's national elections council.

Iacub said the Telemundo team asked how they could obtain permission and, after an hour, were told that they would not be able to transmit.

Telephone calls to Conatel offices seeking comment on the incident went unanswered.

Telemundo Communications Group is owned by NBC Universal Inc., which is controlled by General Electric Co. It claims to reach about 93 percent of Hispanic households in the U.S. and also has viewers in Mexico.

[guyone]

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[guyone]

No one cares to comment? This is OK with all of you? So the NSA has no right to listen to terrorist phone calls but in the lefty world is OK to shut down TV stations that may disagree with your political position?


KILL CHAVEZ!!!!

[ezed]

No one cares to comment? This is OK with all of you? So the NSA has no right to listen to terrorist phone calls but in the lefty world is OK to shut down TV stations that may disagree with your political position?


KILL CHAVEZ!!!!

It sucks, but it's Venezuela. Can we do anything about it ...no. The guy is nationalizing oil companies! He can do anything he wants in his own country. It's not up to any other countries, it's up to Venezuela. And they seem to like him. Until....some rich Venezuelans get pissed off and knock him off. Or many poor Venezuelans band together and do it, but he may be taking care of them with the old two chickens in every pot.

It's sort of like Castro and Cuba. But unlike Cuba, his country isn't an island and it's borders are large. Yes the CIA probably has a modest budget to give him shit, but at this point in time it probably fluctuates up and down with the daily Chavez quote of the day, leaving the agents with their asses hanging out more times then not. If there are enough very rich people who get fucked by this guy, maybe...maybe something will happen. If not, it won't unless he has a real accident. And I mean real not staged.

Socialism at work.

Anyone notice the trend?

Step 1- Country goes socialist.

Step 2- Country robs working people of their property

Step 3- Country limits and controls media

Step 4- Liberals insist that socialism is a good idea



Yep. Still like clockwork.