Chavez has called the new TV channel “socialist television”. The action against the network sparked protests over the weekend. Using water cannons, police dispersed thousands of stone-throwing ...

Venezuela's oldest private television station went off the air at midnight Sunday as thousands banged on pots and pans to protest President Hugo Chavez's decision not to renew the licence of the ...

Venezuela has denied on technicalities Radio Caracas Television’s bid to launch two feevees, keeping the web, which frequently criticizes President Hugo Chavez, off the air. Telco regulator Conatel ...

again if it doesn’t register as a “national producer,” a position that would require it to carry speeches by President Hugo Chavez. According to the Associated Press, Venezuela’s telecommunications ...

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — In what critics call a frontal assault on freedom of the press in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez is pulling the plug at midnight today on a television station that has fiercely ...

(RSF/IFEX) – On 1 August 2007, a “spurious, last-minute legal pretext” was used to force RCTV, now called RCTV Internacional, to suspend broadcasting for the second time in just over two months, RSF ...