{"id":992,"date":"2014-02-13T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=992"},"modified":"2014-02-13T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:04:06","slug":"venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/02\/venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/fa6d4ed9437141d37f3e141748911898\/tumblr_n0x4omr30N1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nVenezuela is having both pro-government and anti-government demonstrations, and so far, <a title=\"Two dead in Venezuela anti-government student protest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-26166094\">two people have died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make it worse,\u00a0<a title=\"NTN24 denuncia censura en Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elespectador.com\/noticias\/elmundo\/ntn24-denuncia-censura-venezuela-articulo-474686\">Venezuelan government censored<\/a> the only news outlet broadcasting the opposition&#8217;s demonstration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more-->According to the channel&#8217;s complaint, <strong>its signal stopped broadcasting<\/strong> through various TV operators running on Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After what happened, the Director General of NTN24 <strong>Claudia Gurisatti<\/strong> said the fact becomes &#8220;openly in a free press censorship, a violation of the right of citizens to be informed and an attack on freedom of expression&#8221;. She added that &#8220;it is very suspicious that just when the opposition&#8217;s side of the story about the violence that occurred in Caracas on Wednesday were being broadcasted <strong>the signal of NTN24 in Venezuela was turned off<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">They&#8217;re joining the <strong><u><a title=\"Petition to censor Shakira in Colombia\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/02\/05\/marco-fidel-ramirez\/\">Latin American<\/a><\/u> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"Ecuadorian cartoonist faces censorship\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/01\/22\/ecuador-censorship\/\">trend<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela is having both pro-government and anti-government demonstrations, and so far, two people have died. To make it worse,\u00a0Venezuelan government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,9,291],"tags":[34,45,115,305,172],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-secularism","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-mass-media","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}