Cable TV Station Critical of Chávez Is Shut Down

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS January 25, 2010

The station was taken off the air after defying new government regulations requiring it to televise some of the Venezuelan president’s speeches.


Venezuela: 15-Year-Old Is Killed During a Demonstration

REUTERS January 26, 2010

A 15-year-old student was killed and nine police officers injured on Monday in violence linked to protests over the suspension of a television station opposed to President Hugo Chávez. Cable providers, responding to government orders, stopped carrying the station, RCTV Internacional, on Sunday. The interior minister, Tareck El Aissami, said the student, Josino Jose Carrillo, who he said was a supporter of Mr. Chávez, was killed while participating in a peaceful demonstration in the Andean city of Merida. There were also protests in the capital, Caracas, and elsewhere.