Bagi yang sudah keburu kehilangan simpati sama Chavez, terutama kepada kawan-kawan wartawan. Please read this article below.
Jadi intinya.... RCTV tidak dibubarkan atau dilarang beroperasi tapi ijin penggunaan gelombang publik (20 tahun-an) tidak diberikan lagi. Mereka tetap bisa beroperasi kalau menggunakan satelite atau cable.... tunggal Venezuela responds to UK' National Union of Journalists Thanks to Walter Lippmann for this e-mail: Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela London 22nd May 2007 Mr. Jeremy Dear Secretary General National Union of Journalists 308-312 Greys Inn Road London W1C1X 8DP Dear Mr. Dear, It has been raised to the attention of the European Parliament, the case of the Venezuelan private TV channel RCTV, which has been wrongly presented by some euro parliamentarians as a manifestation of the violation of freedom of expression in my country. In relation to this case I would like to present you with the following facts: 1. The case has been shown as the closure of the TV channel RCTV, when the reality is simply the non-renewal of its license to broadcast on public airwaves. 2. Venezuelan Legislation does not establish automatic renewal of public airwaves licenses. Article 113 of the Venezuelan Constitution and Article 73 of the Organic Law on Telecommunications state the need for license renewal. 3. Public airwaves licenses have a duration period of 20 years, according to Article 210 of the Organic Law on Telecommunications and Decree No.1577 (Concession Rules for Television and Radio Stations). 4. On 29 March 2007 the Venezuelan Ministry of Telecommunications replied negatively to the formal request presented by RCTV on 24 January 2007 in relation to the renewal of its license. 5. The non-renewal of the license only affects RCTV broadcasting on public airwaves, but it does not affect the TV station’s liberty to broadcast in Venezuela through Cable or Satellite. Neither does it affect the possibility of RCTV producing material for domestic or international TV programming 6. The reasons of the non-renewal are directly related to RCTV’s non-abidement of the requirements established by the Venezuelan Constitution and the Law of Social Responsibility for Radio and Television, for public airwaves licensees, to not incite political violence and civil unrest. Such violations correspond to conspiracy to bring down the Constitutional Government of Venezuela on the occasion of the coup of April 2002 that provoked several deaths, and the active promotion of the oil sabotage of December 2002, which caused the country more than US$10 billion in losses. It also relates to a long history of sanctions against RCTV imposed by previous governments for reasons oscillating from pornography, violations of laws prohibiting publicity of Smoking and Alcohol drinking to transmissions of false information. In that last sense reference should be made to sanctions against RCTV dated 1976, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1989, and 1991. 7. The non-renewal of RCTV license is not an expression of censorship on private media. It must be noted that 79 of 81 TV stations and all 118 newspapers in Venezuela are privately owned. A overwhelming majority of them are vehemently opposed to the democratically elected Government of President Hugo Chavez. Nonetheless, RCTV is unique in its excesses and its history of violations of the legal norms. 8. RCTV broadcasting airwaves license will be assigned, upon expiry, to a public broadcasting service that will present programmes by independent operators and producers. Enclosed please find a sample of the film (DVD format) “The Revolution will not be Televised” produced by the Irish Film Board, and broadcasted several times by the BBC where the evidence of conspiracy by RCTV in the April 2002 coup against President Chavez, is clearly demonstrated. Sincerely yours Alfredo Toro Hardy Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Kingdom ============ ========= ========= == WALTER LIPPMANN Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews writer - photographer - activist http://www.walterli ppmann.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
