[news] Is Free Speech Really at Stake in Venezuela?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Throughout [the] process of increasing voter and citizen participation and electoral democracy, the Venezuelan opposition and their allies in the U.S. press have told us that authoritarianism was just around the corner. They now say it has arrived. The immediate focus of their concern is [President Hugo Chavez's] decision not to renew the broadcast license of a major television network that is openly opposed to the Chávez government. Their free speech concerns have been echoed by Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

  


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