On one side they anounced they reject the physical attack on the journalists. On the other side they said the journalists, who were distributing flyers expressing their position about the new education law, which also affects freedom of speech, were provoking the attack on them by the TV Ávila (government) employees.
Chavez said "even if the journalists feel attacked they should not show those pictures" (about the attack) as there are "proofs" that some of the people were provoking.
What does the European Union say about that?
This is all very coherent with Chavez' green-ecological postures. I mean, did you see what those guys did to those poor, defenseless pieces of wood, using their heads?
ReplyDeleteThey are almost at that point, sometimes even beyond that.
ReplyDeleteEU readers who speak Spanish
who are not following us can read about that in satirical online magazine higüire Bipolar:
http://www.elchiguirebipolar.com/2009/08/defensoria-acusa-periodistas-por.html
The chavista declarations are as crazy.
By the way: did you see how the government said there is a state of law in Venezuela because Lina Ron is in prison for her attack on Globovision? (an attack caught by cameras all around her, an attack even the foreign media reported)
ReplyDeleteNever mind the political prisoners we have or have had there, like Uzon:
http://www.humanrightsfoundation.org/reports/hcletter.html
Never mind normal people like Arne Chacon can become multimillionaires and yet