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The New Normal
You know the country’s well and truly down the rabbithole when random illegal media outlet shutdowns don’t even register as a blip on N24! Dígalo ahí, RSF: Carabobo Stereo 102.3 FM, a radio station...
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Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching the moves in neutral-sounding bureaucratese. RCTV...
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The New Normal
You know the country’s well and truly down the rabbithole when random illegal media outlet shutdowns don’t even register as a blip on N24! Dígalo ahí, RSF: Carabobo Stereo 102.3 FM, a radio station...
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Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching the moves in neutral-sounding bureaucratese. RCTV...
View ArticleArmando.Info Gagged by CONATEL Under Court Order
Photo: Fee.org retrieved A new threshold of Venezuelan censorship has just been reached: Journalist Roberto Deniz, of investigative website Armando.Info, got a letter from broadcasting authority...
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The Burro Mockery Could Spark A Rebellion
Image: ModoGráfico “Let’s see, how do we make things funny?” That’s a question all comedians ask themselves. But a Venezuelan comedian needs to ask himself another question: how do we keep making...
View ArticleThe Hegemony’s Tactics to Confuse, Divide and Rule the Media Work
Photo: retrieved With traditional media like newspapers under control, the government wants the same in the digital world: from arresting social network users like AereoMeteo, to tampering with access...
View ArticleWeb of Repression to Close Newspapers
Photo El Impulso retrieved. In 2018 alone, 30 media outlets have closed in Venezuela. 25 of them are newspapers. With a new digital campaign aimed at decrying the dramatic number of fallen outlets in...
View ArticleMaduro Censors Venezuela Aid Live Concert Coverage
Photo: Efecto Cocuyo, retrieved. In the end, the “communicational hegemony” didn’t disappoint: TV and Internet coverage of the Venezuela Aid Live concert held yesterday, February 22, was thwarted by...
View ArticleMaduro Regime Holds and Robs Jorge Ramos in Miraflores Palace
Photo: ABC News, retrieved. On the night of February 25th, U.S. Spanish-speaking TV network Univision informed that its main news anchor Jorge Ramos and his crew of six were held at Miraflores Palace...
View ArticleThe Regime Launched a General Attack on What’s Left of Free Press
Photo: El Heraldo, retrieved. The detention of Univision main news anchor, Jorge Ramos, and his crew in Miraflores Palace for several hours on February 25th while interviewing Nicolás Maduro, has put...
View ArticleThe Many Faces of Censorship in Academia
When you compare notes about the situation concerning academic freedom in Latin America and North America, the differences between these two realities shine through. In a forum organized by me through...
View ArticleLive Censorship on Venezuelan State TV
Sketch comedy shows were quite popular in Venezuela. In the 90s, at least three major weekly shows held primetime slots in Venezuelan TV, and one, Bienvenidos, with its bikini-bombshell slapstick...
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Government Blocks Independent Media From Olympian Presser
23 out of 43 Venezuelan athletes who competed in Tokyo 2020 were received at the Simón Bolívar International Airport by their families, regime authorities, and the Venezuelan Symphonic Orchestra. The...
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