Venezuela replaces opposition TV with state network
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Venezuela shut down an opposition television channel on Monday and replaced it with one promoting President Hugo Chavez's self-proclaimed socialist revolution in a move widely criticized as a threat to democracy.
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Venezuela&#39;s opposition threatened on Friday to boycott regional elections following President Hugo Chavez&#39;s referendum win, which they say was fraudulent but which international observers say appeared legitimate.
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CARACAS -- President Hugo Chavez yesterday called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence, only days after he shut another opposition broadcaster. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in Caracas in a fourth consecutive day of protests over Chavez's closure of the RCTV network ...
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Venezuela's top court allows the state to seize transmitters belonging to a private opposition TV station.
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The Carter Center called for dialogue Thursday between President Hugo Chavez and opponents protesting his decision to force an opposition TV channel off the air, while relative calm returned to the streets after three days of demonstrations.
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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.Leading up to the deadline, police on Sunday used water cannons and what appeared to be tear gas to break up thousands of demonstrators protesting the government's decision to close the country's most-watched television station.
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With the backing of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela is setting up a state-owned telecoms firm to challenge dominant foreign owned operators.
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By FRAZIER MOORE  NEW YORK - With a ceremonial pressing of a button Monday, the new Spanish-language network V-me hit the air.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has approved a new law that lets the government control all radio and television programming, despite opposition and international groups' concerns that it could be a threat to press freedom.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition on  Tuesday presented a video laying out details of its allegations  that leftist President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum last  month by massive vote rigging.
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Police broke up an opposition protest using a water cannon and tear gas after hundreds took to the streets on Sunday condemning a decision by President Hugo Chavez to force Venezuela's most widely watched channel off the air.
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Thousands of government opponents waving Venezuelan flags marched through the capital on Sunday to protest a decision by President Hugo Chavez to pull the plug on an opposition-aligned TV station.
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An opposition-aligned TV station forced off the air by President Hugo Chavez is considering taking its programming to cable, the channel's top executive said.
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CARACAS -- President Hugo Chavez's dominant political party said yesterday it was dissolving, laying the keystone for a single ruling party that critics fear is Chavez's attempt to turn Venezuela into a dictatorship. Chavez has said the single party is intended to improve the administration of his self-styled leftist revolution, not copy the model of his mentor, Cuban leader Fidel ...
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A South Florida Spanish-language TV station has begun broadcasting programs produced by TV Marti, the federally owned station that beams anti-Castro programming into Cuba, U.S. officials said.
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With a ceremonial pressing of a button Monday, the new Spanish-language network V-me hit the air.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said, days after he closed another opposition broadcaster, that he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence.