Venezuela’s National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL) has allocated funds to 31 community and alternative media outlets in order to strengthen and guarantee their operational capacity, as well as improve their internet and telephone access.
“2012 is going to be a decisive year. There will be various elections, including the presidential elections in October. That means that the manipulations, lies, and distortions by both Venezuelan and international private media will be even more intense than usual,” said VA writer Tamara Pearson.
Yesterday opposition news channel Globovision went to the Administrative Dispute Court to appeal a large fine levied against it for inciting fear. Four opposition candidates arrived outside the court to “rally” to the channel’s political cause.
Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL) imposed a US$ 2.16 million (Bs 9.3 million) penalty yesterday on right wing news station Globovision, equivalent to 7.5% of its gross income in 2010, for manipulation and causing fear with its coverage of the El Rodeo Prison hostage situation.
The Libyan Resistance News Agency (ANRL) was inaugurated yesterday in Caracas at a forum in the Gallegos Foundation Centre for Latin American Studies (CELARG).
The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, met with Venezuelan private media companies El Nacional, Globovision, and the Cisneros Group, to discuss their political content.
This Monday, Venezuelan women marched to the District Attorney’s Office in Caracas demanding that the office take action against the weekly newspaper “6to Poder” (6th Power) for having engaged in “symbolic violence against women”.
According to a recent study on internet usage in Latin America, the Venezuelan people stand third in the region when it comes to use of social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Venezuelan News Agency (AVN) and Vietnam News Agency (VNA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to share informationduring a three-day visit by a VNA delegation to Venezuela which was wrapped up on July 10.
Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Committee (CONATEL) has instigated proceedings against private TV station Globovisión, confirmed the committee’s Director, Pedro Maldonado, this Thursday.
Two weeks after deadly rioting sparked an ongoing siege in Venezuela’s notorious El Rodeo jail, authorities say they have arrested two of the prison’s directors on drug and arms trafficking charges.
Caracas-based Radio del Sur suffered a shake up this week after Venezuela’s Minister of Communication and Information replaced the station’s president in what workers there described as a reprisal for having aired “the exercise of self-criticism” in the aftermath of Venezuela’s controversial deportation to Colombia of alternative media activist Joaquin Pérez Becerra.
Children’s books, art books, novels, social and natural science books, and books by socialist theorists and political leaders were among the tens of thousands of books available at discounted prices at Venezuela’s VII International Book Fair in Caracas.
Four pro-government public servants, including two ex mayors, have been disqualified from political activity for one year due to acts of corruption during the exercise of their previous positions. A fifth, an opposition legislator, has also been disqualified.
