Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
The recent attacks of the Chavez government against the independent press in Venezuela have prompted criticism from nearly all national and international sectors. A reality that shows us the disastrous impact of these actions in the image of the Venezuelan president.
And it could not be otherwise, what public reaction is Chavez hoping for when he jails dissident journalists like Oscar Azocar, when he orders the Attorney General to bring a bill before the National Assembly that would criminalize journalism, when he closes 34 radio stations for political reasons and when his urban guerrilla bands attack Globovision?
Not only Chavez, but any world government which commits the aforementioned attacks against independent media, would immediately project into the public mind an authoritarian, arbitrary and oppressive concept of the regime. Which leads us to conclude that this new wave of press persecution was another serious error of Hugo Chavez.
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