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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:45 am Post subject: Venezuela Shutting Down Radio Stations |
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/01/venezuela.radio.stations/index.html
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At least 34 private radio stations in Venezuela were closed indefinitely Friday, and 206 more were at risk of being shut down, a government official said.
The stations were closed for various reasons, including expired permits and operation by unauthorized personnel, said Diosdado Cabello, minister of Public Works and Housing.
"Freedom of expression is not the most sacred freedom," Cabello was quoted as saying by CNN affiliate Globovision. |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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I am quite pro Ch�vez at the moment actually.
I mean how oppressive must it be to not be able to listen to western pop music (the horror!, damn! etc....)
But in any event, Hugo is on the record as stating that he will stand down in 2013, so my current assessment is that in about 4 years time, enough of the ruling elite in Venezuela will probably be able cobble together a viable rightward-moving political bloc to replace the current administration in some form.
So you/they will get their crap radio stations back eventually. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
I mean how oppressive must it be to not be able to listen to western pop music (the horror!, damn! etc....)
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Yeah, that's exactly what everyone is concerned about: especially Chavez. He wants to protect the youth from the corrupting crooning of Elvis! |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Correction: The Chavez govt is shutting down radio stations...
And Soviet Man: I would not be holding my breath for 2013. Not at all. Latin American dictators -- A. Somoza comes to mind right away -- often discuss stepping down, at some point in time, four years from now or so... |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
| Hugo is on the record as stating that he will stand down in 2013,. |
classic ploy of a dictator.
Always pretend that you're on the verge of stepping down, so that the people wait it out instead of overthrowing you in a violent coup. But when the time comes just make up a new reason to stay on or delay it. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Correction: The Chavez govt is shutting down radio stations...
And Soviet Man: I would not be holding my breath for 2013. Not at all. Latin American dictators -- A. Somoza comes to mind right away -- often discuss stepping down, at some point in time, four years from now or so... |
And when he stays on, his leftist cheerleaders will reference Bush or maybe Pinochet, mutter about context and defend it. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| soviet_man wrote: |
I mean how oppressive must it be to not be able to listen to western pop music (the horror!, damn! etc....)
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Yeah, that's exactly what everyone is concerned about: especially Chavez. He wants to protect the youth from the corrupting crooning of Elvis! |
If Chavez himself didn't say anything about western pop music, I can't for the life of me figure out why Soviet Man would bring that into the discussion as a defense of Chavez. Because that would be a TRULY lame reason to shut down radio stations. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Seems to be a willful misreading of H. Chavez's motives, On the Other Hand.
I do not have access to the Chavez govt's inner thinking, of course. My own reading of this, however, would stress Chavez's using a time-honored Latin American left tactic (from the Castro regime to the Allende administration to the Sandinistas) which labels any and all domestic criticism the Yankees' doing and moves aggressively, even if sometimes indirectly, to shut it down. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
I am quite pro Ch�vez at the moment actually.
I mean how oppressive must it be to not be able to listen to western pop music (the horror!, damn! etc....)
But in any event, Hugo is on the record as stating that he will stand down in 2013, so my current assessment is that in about 4 years time, enough of the ruling elite in Venezuela will probably be able cobble together a viable rightward-moving political bloc to replace the current administration in some form.
So you/they will get their crap radio stations back eventually. |
Excellent post. |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't know where else to put this.
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| Falling oil prices and some significant losses in recent elections may have delivered blows to Hugo Ch�vez's self-styled socialist revolution, but he can still count on the support of Sean Penn. |
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| It's true, Ch�vez may not be a good man. But he may well be a great one. |
Surprisingly, this comes from The Guardian |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Sean Penn seems to side with America's most bitter rhetorical enemies every time he comes up to bat. Wonder what is going on inside his head. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Sean Penn is still mad at the police
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Chavez supporters attack opposition TV station
Mon Aug 3, 2009 5:18pm EDT
By Raymond Colitt and Ana Isabel Martinez
CARACAS (Reuters) - Several dozen militant backers of Hugo Chavez on Monday stormed the headquarters of an opposition TV station that the Venezuelan president has threatened to shut down amid his crackdown on private media.
Activists with the UPV, a radical left-wing party that backs Chavez, forced their way past security guards to enter Globovision headquarters in Caracas and fired tear gas inside the compound, images broadcast by the TV station showed.
Globovision, a small but critical station, broadcasts news programing and has been highly critical of Chavez. Chavez's government condemned the attack, although Globovision's owners said they suspected the president was behind the incident.
The intruders waved UPV banners and wore red berets like the one that Chavez often wears. Workers at Globovision said the intruders threatened them with guns.
Globovision said a police officer guarding the station was injured in the incident. |
� Thomson Reuters 2009 |
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