The history of the private media in Venezuela is complicated with a long tradition of dirty deals and un-democratic behavior!
So this headline about 'Censorship in Venezuela' could be taken as out of context if you don't have an understanding about the underlaying
background and history about Venezuela & these business oligarchs/ moguls in Venezuela and their involvements with heavily corrupt
politicians/Presidents in Venezuela etc.
These oligarchs/moguls have never been on the people's side
Most of these oligarchs also work for Washington!
Hugo Chavez main enemy in Venzuela is one of the ultra rich & elite families: Cisneros
www.cisneros.com...
The Cisneros Group is similar to Berlusconi's Business & Media Empire in Italy.
Cisneros is also a friend & business partner with Rupert Murdoch with joint projects and business adventures.
In this link you could read more about the history of Venezuela's (dirty) media & business empires - to have a understanding WHY the situation is
like it is today:
Over the years, the Cisneros brothers nurtured relationships with politicians and power brokers around the world. Gustavo listed David
Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan as personal friends. At home, the brothers had close ties to Venezuela's president,
Carlos Andres Perez, which proved almost as problematic as beneficial when the country's economy began to sputter. In 1989, for instance, rioters
attacked Cada supermarkets to protest austerity measures introduced by the government. When threatened by a military coup attempt in 1992, Perez
sought refuge at Venevision's well-fortified Caracas television studio, from which he thwarted the military by addressing the nation on television.
The Cisneros' connection with Perez became a clear liability during the economic turmoil of 1994. In January of that year Venezuela's second largest
bank, Banco Latino, failed, triggering a major financial crisis that required the government to bail out a number of banks. Ricardo Cisneros, one of
83 Banco Latino directors, was caught up in the resulting scandal. He quickly fled the country for Miami after arrest warrants were issued for him and
the other 82, who faced charges of fraud, misappropriation, and publishing false bank balances. In addition, President Perez would be placed under
house arrest for two years, accused of misappropriating funds. Gustavo Cisneros, however, was not implicated in the scandal and continued to run the
family business from Caracas.
www.answers.com...
When the coup d'état against Chavez happened - the Cisneros Media Empire took advantage of the situation through their media and stood on
coupsters/cia's side through the week long crises.
And they have ever since been a torn in the side for Chavez with their TV channels and other media groups working against him.
And I almost forgot that the other Media company 'Globovison' a 24-hour news channel that he accused of trying to instigate his assassination - they
also took advantage of the coup attempt against Chavez.
Globovision is owned by an investor group called Corporacion GV Inversiones CA. This group has ties to many American Investors & Media
Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) the country's oldest broadcaster which had a national distribution - Since 27 May 2007 the station lost their radio
nationwide broadcast license for what it claimed was the station's role in the coup.
Currently, as of January 22, 2009, RCTV continues to broadcast on cable and satellite systems under the name Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional
(RCTV Internacional)
I knew some people who used to work at RCTV
Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition
In the days leading up to April 11, 2002, Venevision, Globovision, Televen and RCTV suspended regular programming replacing it with anti-Chavez
speeches and virulent propaganda featuring strong rhetoric and calling on the Venezuelan people to take to the streets on that day they knew in
advance had been scheduled for the coup. They blared it was "For freedom and democracy. Venezuela will not surrender. No one will defeat us." This
went on continuously in tone and content practically announcing a call to arms insurrection on the scheduled coup date asking people to participate
supporting the overthrow of their democratically elected president and government.
On April 10, one day before the coup, General Nestor Gonzales got air time on the major corporate broadcast media announcing the high military command
demanded Hugo Chavez step down from office or be forcibly removed. The day following the coup, the dominant commercial media revealed their
involvement in it, and on one April 12 Venevision morning program military and civilian coup leaders appeared on-air to thank the corporate media
channels for their important role, including the images they aired while it was in progress, stating how important their participation was to the
success of the plot. It failed two days later largely because of mass public opposition to it with huge crowds on the streets supporting their
president in far greater numbers than those favoring the coup-plotters.
It was also later revealed the two-day only installed Venezuelan president Pedro Carmona had used the facilities of Gustavo Cisneros' Venevision
as a "bunker" or staging area base of operations and was seen leaving its building heading for the Miraflores to take office as president of
Venezuela on April 11 in flagrant violation of the law.
The dominant private corporate media clearly and unequivocally were part of the coup plot. They colluded to promote it in advance and then
incited the public with anti-Chavez propaganda encouraging it while suppressing all news and information supporting Hugo Chavez that might have helped
prevent it.
www.globalresearch.ca...
All that is happeneing now against the private media, is some kind of pay-back from Chavez!
[edit on 6-9-2009 by Chevalerous]
