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by rahul | May 7, 2007 at 01:18 pm
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<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Caracas, Venezuela. Today, Israeli-born media owner Baruch Ivcher criticised Venezuelan government for not renewing a broadcasting licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) as off May 28th. He deemed it as a violation of press freedom and called for international accion against it.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />President Fujimori striped Ivcher of his Peruvian nationality in 1997. On his television station, he had denounced Peruvian government of torture in the army and illegal telephone-tapping. As a foreigner, his broadcasting licence was revoked and his Radio Peru Station was taken over by pro-government shareholders. His case was taken to OAS.
After Ivcher´s comments, Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Nicolas Maduro said his country was ready to confront any media propaganda against the government decision to revoke RCTV´s licence. Then, He announced a rather active public diplomacy to counteract such moves. Members of Parliament and official delegates have already traveled to Europe to defend Venezuela’s case.
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at 21:26 on May 7th, 2007
I would like to flag this story as good stuff, but can't because it has no link to the source. If you supply a link, contact me through my NP page and I will be back to flag it. The writing looks original and quite good, and the story is important. Wonder what the consequences will be in terms of other foreign aid.
at 10:28 on May 8th, 2007
rahul, thanks for posting this. I agree with publicreader that some info about your source would be helpful, but I think the story is well on its way. Thank you very much! Keep up the great work!