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Lies, slanders and half-truths. This is what the mass media generally publish about Venezuela. We aim to draw attention to these articles, reply to their distortions and mobilise the pressure of public opinion through letter-writing campaigns, etc. Please let us know if you find an article or report on Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution that you think is inaccurate and we should reply to (Contact Us)

Venezuelan Civil Society Groups Accuse U.S. of Fomenting Destabilization

01 June 2007
Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Organizations, journalists, students, activists and intellectuals in Venezuela accused the national and international media of waging a campaign against Venezuela and of supporting destabilization plans that have been carried out in the country in the past few days. Chris Carlson Venezuelanalysis.com. 

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Leading voices in Britain call for respect for Venezuelan government's RCTV decision

30 May 2007
Hands Off Venezuela
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The letter and a number of its signatories appeared in The Guardian newspaper (26 May).

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Zero Hour for Venezuela's RCTV

30 May 2007
George Ciccariello-Maher - MRZine
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"For the non-renewal of RCTV to be a free speech issue at all, one would have to make the ... argument that ... Marcel Granier and media conglomerate ... (1BC), somehow represents an expression of the people's freedom rather than the freedom of its small group of shareholders."

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Goodbye RCTV, welcome TVes!

28 May 2007
Hands Off Venezuela
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The licence for coup-plotting TV station RCTV expired last night. Venezuela has now a new public access channel, TVes. We have updated the list of signatures to our appeal on the RCTV case. We are also publishing two articles detailing US funding of Venezuelan journalists and analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on the media coverage of the RCTV case

Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs

28 May 2007
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
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The story is framed in U.S. news media as a simple matter of censorship: Prominent Venezuelan TV station RCTV is being silenced by the authoritarian government of President Hugo Chávez, who is punishing the station for its political criticism of his government. [Analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]

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