MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Venezuela’s only opposition television network sold to a group close to the government
Globovision, Venezuela's only opposition television network which had a long history of clashes with the populist government of deceased President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution, was sold Monday and will change its critical coverage, network officials said.
“This channel already has been sold off,” the network's website said in a statement. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHey,, this is funnier than refusing foreign (as in, from 10 kilometers away) newspap.ers because 'lead'. Or buying up all the material for newspaper production. Or stopping newspaper advertising revenue. Damm
May 14th, 2013 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent news =)
May 14th, 2013 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 Yep. Totalitarianism rules OK!
May 14th, 2013 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marxism-Leninism full move..........
May 14th, 2013 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0R.I.P. Venezuelans
I'm surprized they held out this long. Grupo Clarín is destined for a similar fate...
May 14th, 2013 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It would seem that the nation's communications and the media are now totally owned by the government.
May 14th, 2013 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is an incredibly bad thing.
It presages bad government
and it exemplifies bad political acumen.
@2 “British Kirchnerist”, they cannibalize family members for food in North Korea.
May 14th, 2013 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 06 GeoffWard2
May 14th, 2013 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But are you at all surprised?
Given that the population voted the Bus Driver into power they are entitled to have the roller coaster ride both he and the little bird will guarantee them.
Serves them right.
Is it true that he has just put troops on the strees
May 14th, 2013 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0to protect everyone..
#4 “Marxism-Leninism full move...”
May 14th, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...by a business aquisition! hmmm...
#7 I have never supported North Korea (though I don't think “they” are all cannibals, actually!)
Clarin next , and more quickly than expected ! Bye to democracy in Argentina .
May 15th, 2013 - 02:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, you haven't, British Kirchnerist, because there's no glamour.
May 15th, 2013 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0And you don't tend to synthesize facts.
But I have seen improvement.
It seems like maybe, you like designer divas who 'stand up to daddy'. Gilbert Godfrey, is that you?
I'm guessing there was an authoritarian in your house.
North Korea is the result of DECADES of something called a command economy.
Partial command economies: Iran Cuba, and Venezuela. As of April, Argentina.
The -------------AVERAGE ------------North Korean's daily rations in grams have been cut from 1400 to 700 total as of: 2012. Mostly old cornmeal. Rice is special.
(This does not mean that everyone is actually getting this. Hundreds of thousands died directly from starvation in the '90s.)
The ----------AVERAGE---------- male N Korean seems to be 5” shorter than SK. The world only knows if they escape. A third of the children have mental retardation caused by nutrition.
And N Korea has plenty of ag land!!!!!!!!!! Korea used to feed itself. And look at South Korea.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
Price controls, currency controls, newsprint controls, economic statistic reporting controls, Taringa! controls-don't let them creep up, they don't work.
Because living beings need freedom, opportunities, and trust to thrive.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
#11 So you admit there IS glamour with Cristina =) But the more important difference in North Korea is there's no democracy...
May 15th, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think she has perfect facial proportions, & maintains superwell.
May 15th, 2013 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But pretty gift wrap on an empty box can be disappoint.
Fascist gov (no democracy) follows a sharp turn in conditions.
Hyperinflation in Germany, as a result of a sharp swing towards liberalism of the WEIMAR period, led to a populist dictator, and FASCISM.
In this global downturn, Greece, Cyprus &Argentina are 1,2, & 3 on the Crisis Watch report.
Basically because Vivenza Criolla.
I don't think Ms. Kirchner is powerful over others at all, I think it's the population creating these conditions.
But the tidal wave is coming, thru Spain, Argentina's biggest investor. ((Actually turbulence central is in & adjacent to North Africa, radiating out.))
The only investment will be in car manufacturing, bc that's a hyperinflation bank. There'll be short on liquid money.
Tell me that nothing happened in Argentina once it's 2018. I'll be glad to hear predictions were wrong.
Meanwhile, there's a wave of PROSPERITY traveling thru Singapore Australia, Hawaii, West Coast up to Canada, slowing overground, picking up in Vermont, NewHampsh and ending in Scandinavia.
#14 “I think she has perfect facial proportions, & maintains superwell”
May 15th, 2013 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Imagine what people would say if I'd said that =) Quite a good description actually, though not one all your political co-thinkers will accept! Plus I think if she actually was evil or whatever, wouldn't that show through in her facial expressions at least, as it did with Tony Blair in his later years; instead she radiates warmth and character =) Finally there's a big political diference between being an “empty box”, and “fascist government”; even if all your (relatively measured, if simplistic) political criticisms turn out to be right, that will be a long way from Cristinita being any kind of fascist...
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