Colombian TV Station Caracol Taken Off Venezuelan Airwaves

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Since the stories of Antifa attacking journalists in an attempt to control the news, I thought this story was an appropriate parallel.  It is interesting, the Left Wing media is in complete attack mode against Trump because he is fighting them for truth, but hardly a word from these same news organizations when a Democratic Socialist (I.e. Marxist) group such as Antifa attacks journalist.

 

 

Associated Press

Aug. 24, 2017 3:36 p.m. ET

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CARACAS—Colombian TV network Caracol has been taken off the air in Venezuela a day after President Nicolás Maduro delivered a scathing rebuke of the neighboring nation’s media, joining a growing list of news outlets that have been blocked by his government.

Caracol News director Juan Roberto Vargas told Colombian radio that the channel’s coverage of ousted chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz appears to have been a “breaking point” that led to its removal Wednesday.

Colombian news channel RCN was also blocked from broadcasting on a Venezuelan local cable operator, though its signal remained active Thursday on DirecTV.

 

“They make these decisions unilaterally without any type of discussion,” Vargas said.

Mr. Maduro regularly accuses foreign news outlets of spreading a false narrative about Venezuela’s government intended to pave the way for a supposed U.S. military intervention.

“Since the war in Iraq, we have not seen anything as sickening,” Mr. Maduro said Tuesday at a news conference with foreign journalists, singling out Caracol, Fox News and the BBC for what he considers biased coverage.

Earlier this year Venezuelan authorities shut down CNN en Espanol’s feed after the Spanish-language channel aired a report about fraudulent passports that drew angry criticism from officials. In all, about a half-dozen foreign networks have been blocked, including Colombia’s El Tiempo and NTN24 and Todo Noticias of Argentina.

Over the years Venezuela’s government has also forced a number of critical national media outlets out of business, in some cases by refusing to renew their operating licenses.

In a 2017 report on global press freedom by Reporters Without Borders, Venezuela ranked 137th out of 179 nations.

“Freedom of the press is as scarce as food” in Venezuela, Mr. Vargas told Caracol Radio, a reference to people’s struggles to find basic goods in the country.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/colombian-tv-station-caracol-taken-off-venezuelan-airwaves-1503603392

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Socialist paradise! Just look at all that wonderful freedom and tolerance. Wish we could have that up here!