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June 22, 2007 ... Las Balas de Abril by Francisco Olivares. See also "The 47 Hour Coup That Changad Everything" by Gregory Wilpert. ...

February 7, 2007 ... shut down by the fascist junta responsible for the famous 47-hour coup d'état April 11-13, 2002, a shutdown that was ...

December 9, 2007 ... dramatically to the camera that he had been "held for 30 hours" by police in Caracas. In fact, he had walked into a ... including those that would reduce the working week from 44 hours to 36 hours; extend social security benefits to 5 million ...

March 18, 2007 ... is part of the Sky cable system.  Arco Iris broadcasts 18 hours of Telesur and 6 hours of local programming.  So, there´s lots of different ... in Latin America and in the world.  We now get three hours on prime time on Cuban television.  In a certain ...

May 28, 2007 ... In 1981, for example, it was taken off the air for 24 hours because of airing pornographic scenes. In 2002, RCTV ...

December 17, 2007 ... state institutions * Reducing the work day to a maximum 6 hours, the work week to a maximum 36 hours * Creating parity in the voting system in universities ...

June 1, 2007 ... charged soap opera) during children's TV-watching hours, not to mention participation in the 2002 anti-Chávez ...

July 11, 2007 ... world, dared to behave similarly it would not even last 24 hours and its directors would immediately be thrown in ... 1981 and 2006 for airing pornographic scenes at prohibited hours.  Now RSF calls in to question the decisions of the ... As for freedom of expression, anyone who has spent 24 hours in Venezuela can only be astonished by the opposition ...

March 2, 2007 ... title); they are to be held for a short period of time—hours—before either being ransomed to their wealthy parents ... a clip of the incident ad nauseam in the days and hours preceding the coup. The clip aired on TV, and in ...

May 30, 2007 People have been collectively tearing their hair out all over Latin America because of the Venezuelan government's decision not to renew the broadcasting licence of that country's most popular television station, RCTV. But they ignore the media situation in the rest of Latin America.

June 29, 2007 Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal can barely contain their displeasure over Hugo Chavez wanting Venezuela to have majority ownership of its own assets and no longer let Big (foreign) Oil investors plunder them. Those days are over.

June 2, 2007 ... of the media landscape, in that it mandates that five hours per day (between 5am and 11pm) be produced by ... be, broadcasting anti-government opinions and analysis 24 hours a day. The other pro-government channels, such as most ...

May 4, 2007 When it comes to Venezuela, the issue is oil and Chavez's having the "audacity" to want his people to benefit most from their own resources, not predatory foreign oil companies the way it used to be when the country's leadership only served the interests of capital ignoring essential social needs.

May 23, 2007 ... air mostly entertainment and one, Globovisión, is a 24-hours news channel. On Globovisión, Wilpert says, “the ...

June 15, 2007 Attacks on free speech across the region do not make the front pages of the British and American press. As usual, alleged concerns for democracy and human rights mask deeper priorities: protecting governments that toe the line dictated by Western power, and undermining those that do not.