On 6/2/07, michael a. lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.marxist.com/counterrevolutionary-offensive-venezuela010607.htm
do not need excuses. If they do not have any, they invent them. The
measure taken of not renewing the licence to RCTV is perfectly legal,
and does not even affect other private coup-plotting TV stations
(such as Globovisión and Venevision). Despite this, they have
launched an unprecedented campaign around the so-called "defence of
the freedom of expression".
Hi Michael,
A naive question: on the face of it, cancelling licenses of unfriendly
TV stations does sound like a suppression of free expression. What is
the background to this? Was this decision taken in a democratic way?
Thanks.
-raghu.
