The two TV chanels have nothing to do with US corporate interests.

The steel company is Argentinian.

evidently LH thinks Teargas and rubber bullets for protestors are OK.

I guess I will have to recite the old acid test for people who support dictators. Go live there a while and then tell me how great it is.


    Some 70 to 80 per cent of Venezuelans opposed the closure, according to recent polls.
    Chavez announced the decision not to renew RCTV's licence soon after he was re-elected in late 2006.
    During the campaign, RCTV openly called for the president's defeat, and Chavez never forgave the network for calling for an April 2002 coup that deposed him for two days.
    "The decision was mine" to close RCTV, Chavez said on Saturday, calling its steamy soap operas "a danger for the country, for boys, for girls."
    RCTV, which notably airs the popular "telenovelas" and variety shows, had one of the largest audiences in Venezuela and is one of the few stations with national broadcast capabilities.
    As of Monday, the government will control two of the four nationwide broadcasters in Venezuela, one of them state-owned VTV.
    However, the government renewed the broadcast licence for Venevision, RCTV's main competitor, which expired on Friday.
    Venevision is owned by billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, who dropped his open opposition to Chavez in 2004.
    Since 1999, Chavez has gradually tightened his grip on the levers of power in Venezuela, and in January the National Assembly allowed him to rule on most matters by decree, without legislative debate.
    Criticism of the RCTV shutdown poured in from around the world, including from Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders and the US Senate, which unanimously approved a resolution last week expressing "profound concern" over the move.
    El Nacional daily in a front-page editorial said RCTV's shutdown marked "the end of pluralism" in Venezuela and the government's growing "information monopoly".
    Chavez and his ministers deflected criticism, saying other media could still carry the RCTV signal.
    However, Granier said, "the government is pressuring cable and satellite companies not to carry us."
    RCTV filed charges Saturday with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.

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