Date: July 17, 2005 6:27:40 AM PDT
Subject: [narconews] Vivanco Attacks Telesur: "The Airwaves Are Falling!"
July 17, 2005
Gary Webb - Presente
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Dear Colleague,
Telesur, the Latin America-wide TV station that is scheduled to begin
broadcasting on July 24 with start-up funds from the governments of
Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Cuba, is already worrying the
anti-democracy crowd in the region, including Human Rights Watch "Americas
Director" José Miguel Vivanco.
According to today's Chicago Tribune, Vivanco is calling upon a higher power
- God herself! - to help him in his battle to discredit a TV station that he
has never even watched. Vivanco said:
"If the shareholders of this company belong to a government like Cuba where
they have no basic concept of free speech and zero tolerance for independent
views, God help us."
In his panicked announcement that the airwaves are falling, Vivanco was
joined by an old ally: Venezuelan coup plotter and media baron Alberto
Federico Ravell...
Read all about Vivanco's latest anti-human rights tantrum, and the
censorious history of his Venezuelan allies, via The Narcosphere:
Meanwhile. journalist Stephen Peacock pours over more U.S. government
documents and finds Washington rushing to send 3,700 packages of riot gear
to the Bolivian government by July 31, as well as construction of an
"emergency operations center" in La Paz:
Vivanco and Human Rights Watch, however, remain silent on that and other
real threats to human rights and democracy in the region.
From somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Correspondent
The Narco News Bulletin
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