Censorship In Venezuela

[Dr. Shane]

Telemundo: Venezuela Halts Transmission

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Officials identifying themselves as members of a state regulatory agency forced the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo to halt transmission Sunday of its presidential election coverage.

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The officials said the network needed permission to transmit and lacking such could not, he said. Iacub said he was unaware of such a requirement but that the Telemundo journalists were accredited with Venezuela's national elections council.

Iacub said the Telemundo team asked how they could obtain permission and, after an hour, were told that they would not be able to transmit.

This is the same network that is broadcasting the Veggie Tales.

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Telemundo Communications Group is owned by NBC Universal Inc., which is controlled by General Electric Co. It claims to reach about 93 percent of Hispanic households in the U.S. and also has viewers in Mexico.

Sounds like the crooked politics of Chavez. This is the same guy that trashed the Venezuelan constitution and extended the number of terms a president can serve. The Carter group couldn't verify his last election and I doubt this one will be verified either. One just has to feel bad for the poor Venezuelan people.

[Taylor]

I am watching the situation in Venezuela very closely as part of my family are missionaries there. Do keep Venezuela and it's eroding freedoms in your prayers.

[Dr. Shane]

Chavez storms to re-election victory

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The country's opposition movement struggled to challenge Chavez after he defeated a recall referendum in 2004. Many opposition supporters believe Chavez has an unfair advantage by controlling key institutions such as the election council.

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Worrying his opponents, Chavez has vowed to use a fresh mandate to scrap presidential term limits and create a single-party that he expects to lead in power for decades.

Having already taken on multinational oil giants to demand they hand more control to the state, Chavez will likely press for more share of Venezuela's vast oil and mineral resources and increase land distribution for the rural poor.

[Stan]

Are there any other countries other than US 'controlled' that limit the people from electing their leader more than 2 times in a row?

I am thankful they have exempting the Adventist Church from having to leave. I was told we were the only ones.

[Dr. Shane]

Mexico limits its President to a one five-year term. So their presidents never run for re-election.

What is distrubing about Venezuala isn't that a leftist has won elections there. It is that he cancelled the constitution that he was elected under. Now he wants to do away with presidencial term limits AND create a one party system - with him as the head.

He won this time with 61% of the vote but since he is in control of the people that count the votes, that doesn't seem impressive. Remember Saddam was able to get 99% of the Iraqi vote when he ran for election.