MORON. You & Glover must be worried about Chavez:CARACAS, Venezuela — As the clock struck 11:58 p.m., all of Caracas, Venezuela, seemed to hold its breath.
Moments later, the country's most popular television station, Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) went to black … for good.
It wasn't that RCTV, after 53 years, had lost its popularity; nor was it that an economic downturn had dictated the station's fate. It was that Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, decided that RCTV — one of four privately owned television stations in the country and the only one do maintain its opposition to Chavez — was a threat to his government.
The early morning's events were the culmination of a week of battles in the Venezuela Supreme Court. On May 23, the court ruled that RCTV had to stop broadcasting by May 28, upholding Chavez' decision not to renew their license when it expired on May 27. That decision was the result of years worth of hatred and suspicion over RCTV's criticism of his regime, earning it the title of one of the "Four Horses of the Apocalypse."
Still, RCTV executives, actors and journalists called for a peaceful demonstration, as crowds began to gather earlier in the day outside the station's studios in Caracas. They spoke out against Chavez and his totalitarianist regime which, the station said, had now taken the jobs of 3,000 people and trampled on freedom of expression. |
