Venezuelan Channel RCTV closed by Chavez

Last night the oldest channel in the whole country was forced out of the air (against constitutional rights) by President Chavez.

RCTV who refused to alter its critique of the current government to favor a Fidel-wannabe president is now out of air and more then 3000 people are out of work as the government took measures to assure that this people who are against a regiment communist in the country were to be employed by other TV channels.


Last words of Eladio Laréz at the last minutes of the closing of the Channel.(Spanish)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_4zLvaCp44

Well this discussion is getting heated, this is the OP and just to clarify my posts so far have been 1, 8, 13, 16.

I know that its hard to judge whats happening in Venezuela from what little info makes it out to the international media, for example I haven't heard anything yet in international news about the decision of the government to illegally expropriate most of the equipment owned by RCTV.

For those who think RCTV was just a biased news channel ala (FOX NEWS) who had a secret agenda to overthrow Chavez are utterly incorrect, RCTV has been one of the major critics of the Chavez administration but it has also been there to criticize past governments that failed to deliver just like Chavez is failing to deliver all that he promised.

>>24
 What You say is half true, Venezuela has always been a very homogeneous country until now..., Chavez has taken care of separating the whole country as those whose are with his so called Bolivarian revolution and the stupidly called Oligarchy.

>>26
Like you said I don't stand with any other leaders and much less with Chavez, I don't stand with the extreme right simply because there is no one trustworthy in the whole faction, most of the people trying to lead the opposition are the same fuckers screw the country so much that people didn't thought it twice before they voted for a lunatic like Chavez.