Chavez and the U S Congress: What He Learned from H. R. 2278……..
“A cable-television channel critical of President Hugo Chavez was yanked from the air early Sunday for defying new government regulations requiring it to televise some of the socialist leader's speeches. Venezuelan cable and satellite TV providers stopped transmitting Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV, after it did not broadcast Chavez's speech Saturday to a rally of political supporters. "They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming," Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency, said Saturday. The telecommunications agency "doesn't have any authority to give the cable service providers this order," RCTV said in a statement. "The government is inappropriately pressuring them to make decisions……… Globovision - the last opposition-aligned TV channel on the open airwaves - is also the target of multiple government investigations that authorities say could lead to the revocation of its broadcast license….…..”
Chavez must have been following the proceedings of the US house of Repersentatives, particulary on H.R. 2278 for monitoring and eventually blocking Arab television channels from satellites.
Or maybe he was paying attention to Arab Information Ministers discuss restrictions on channels they don't like.
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