Chavez closes TV station
Posted on Sun 27 May 2007 at 10:32 pm PST. Filed under Politics.
“Venezuela’s most-watched television station — and outlet for the political opposition — went off the air after the government refused to renew its broadcast license. […] Chavez has accused station of supporting the failed 2002 coup against him.”
I blogged about the guy before. I don’t think that Chavez tries to be a dictator or anything like that, but perhaps he overreacts to things all too easily (just like I do). I hope he gets back to his right mind soon enough and oppose his antagonists in a more… politically correct way.
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He overreacts? Come on Eugenia. When TV stations are banned by “overreactions” something is obviously very wrong.
You hope he gets back to his right mind? When did he have one?
I am afraid that your dislike for the Bush administration makes you overlook that Chavez is an authoritarian scum. I dislike Bush too but politicians like Chavez are of course NOT the right answer.
He himself tried to organize a coup in 1992. I think dictators should be by definition paranoid and I don’t see any reason to shut down the station if you don’t have anything to hide. He may be more dangerous than he appears.
I never said that he is the right answer. I just said that he should snap out of it. I truly don’t believe that he THINKS that he is doing a bad thing. He can’t see it right now, he seems blind. I am not criticizing him for all his career as a politician (I know nothing of it), I only criticize his latest decision — which to me, from far away, does seem like an overreaction — although someone who knows his doings better will possibly characterize him worse. That’s all I am saying. If Venezuela has any laws in place to regulate such decisions, then they should use them against him.
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