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Chavez to shut down opposition TV
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by nukegingrich | December 28, 2006 at 05:42 pm
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will not
renew the licence for the country's second largest TV channel when it
expires in March 2007.
In an address to troops, Mr Chavez said he would not tolerate media outlets working toward a coup against him.
Radio Caracas Television, which is aligned with the opposition, supported a strike against Mr Chavez in 2003.
Correspondents say this is Mr Chavez' first significant political move since his re-election earlier this month.
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Mr Chavez, who was returned to power by a wide margin on
3 December, said the head of the television channel, Marcel Granier,
was mistaken in believing "that concession is eternal".
"It runs out in March. So it's better that you go and
prepare your suitcase and look around for what you're going to do in
March.
"There will be no new operating licence for this coupist
TV channel called RCTV. The operating licence is over... So go and turn
off the equipment," Mr Chavez said
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at 20:58 on December 28th, 2006
My heart and mind are torn into different directions. Surely, domestically living with Chavez and the Venezuelan opposition and their methods must be a nightmare.
And probably a coup d'etat is not quite the way to get to power. Nor is Chavez' endless, highly doubtable, and who knows not-too-peaceful method of getting a close iron fisted grip on his country.
On the international stage, however, Chavez is a welcome departure from the conformist view of other U.N. member states and, if nothing else, is a kind of late Chrustchev epigone. I am convinced, the current U.S. adminsistration in particular needs protest at the General Assembly and beyond, and words can hardly be clear enough. In that sense, Chavez plays an important role. Anyhow, probably normal Venezuelans are probably better-off under Chavez than they would be under a neoliberal paradigm in economics, refuting the law of gravity insofar as the weight of money would be concerned.
It remains to be seen whether South America will be able to spark a new movement against the thoroughly superfluous neocon-economics. For sure, keeping the word from getting out this time over probably wouldn't be as easy as cutting the telephone link between a given presidential palace and a radio station.
at 22:22 on December 28th, 2006
"thoroghly superflous neocon-economics",
I'm going to have to ponder that. Chavez has a great gig, allies, money, oil, and tons of admirers on the left. He speaks the language of the demogogue, and uses the tactics of a totalitarian. He has what Castro did not have: self-sustaining cash flow to finance his whims.
Certainly more flamboyant than Kruschev, but given a little more time, and lot less hair, who knows?
at 04:14 on December 30th, 2006
How shamefully un-democratic!
Why, if a coup was being planned against George Bush here in the U.S. of A., Mr. Bush would cheerfully permit it to go on, right?
Heh.