CHAVEZ CLOSING DOWN RADIO STATIONS IN VENEZUELA AS THE FIST OF STALINISM TIGHTENS ON THE POPULATION

Hugo Chavez, President for Life Dictator of Venezuela, with his mentor, Fidel Castro of the Communist prison island of Cuba




CHAVEZ TIGHTENS THE SCREWS ON REMAINING MEDIA IN VENEZUELA. CUBAN STYLE COMMUNISIM NEARLY DONE IN VENEZUELA.

Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 6:37 PM

EMPEROR DICTATOR Chavez may be coming for YOU next.

--Lan Sluder

From the WSJ:

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Venezuelan radio broadcasters vowed to fight a move by President Hugo Chávez to yank the signals of 34 stations in a growing government crackdown on independent media.

The Venezuelan government forced a Caracas radio station, CNB, to go off the air on Saturday. Thirty-three other stations have also been told they must stop transmitting because they failed to comply with licensing regulations.
The shutdown of the radio stations, which the government accused of licensing irregularities, came as Mr. Chávez pressed legislation to punish so-called media crimes with prison sentences of up to four years. Human-rights groups criticized the government for trying to strangle dissent as the president moves to impose a socialist economic model.
Nelson Belfort, director of the Venezuelan Radio Broadcasting Chamber and owner of one of the affected stations, said he will appeal the president's move. In the meantime, some of the stations said they will try to continue broadcasting via the Internet.
Mr. Chávez defended the move against the stations and said "the radio broadcasters now belong to the people and not the bourgeoisie." Some 200 other stations are under investigation and face the prospect of losing their licenses.