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Giovanni Durán, a journalist with the public television channel ViveTV, never thought that a simple comment from him in a private discussion about rationing power would be grounds for dismissal under the accusation of alleged "political disloyalty" with the regime of Nicolás Maduro.
Your case is one more than dozens of journalists who lost their jobs for expressing their opinion in social networks, according to the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP), whose list of people affected, not only unemployed, but also arrested, has been enlarged by repression and attacks of the ruling clbad against the media of the year.
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In conversation with ClarinThe journalist Luis Carlos Diaz, one of the country's most influential cyber-activists, said that Chavez censorship was "monstrous" in Venezuela. He works in the Unión Radio circuit. On March 11, he was detained for 30 hours, accused by the regime of being involved in the sabotage of the national electrical system.
Thanks to the international mobilization, including the UN, Luis Carlos Díaz was released on parole but he must appear every 8 days before a court of Caracas, he can not leave the country nor speak to the press of his case for the alleged crime "instigation of public order", which provides for sentences of up to 6 years in prison.
Until the first week of March, the Institute of Press and Society in Venezuela (IPYS) reported 155 violations and attacks on the press, including 37 national and foreign journalists were arbitrarily arrested by state security agents and pro-government sympathizers.
There is no free press in Venezuela. The latest form of censorship launched by the National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) is to ban the appointment of Nicolás Maduro as "usurper" or Juan Guaidó as acting president of radio and television , public and private, under the threat of closure of the one who violates official standards.
The veto extends to those who participate in forums, meetings or interviews. The guests of the programs can not talk about trial, foreign support, military uprising, coup d'etat, referendum, elections and a long list of banned terms such as dictatorship, denounces journalist Nelson Bocaranda, who runs his daily radio program, where he juggles with languages. escape censorship.
Conatel has not published the official letter on the new modality of censorship of the radio and the rare TV channels still open, knowing that 90% of their licenses have expired and that their renewal is conditioned to the good behavior of the regime.
Restrictions on freedom of expression and the press worsened in January when he took office Juan Guaidó as president of the National Assembly, then on January 23, he was sworn in as president in charge of Venezuela.
Since then, mbad demonstrations in the streets have been violently repressed. And journalists, who are at the forefront of the battle with anti-gas masks and bulletproof vests, are the first to fall into the clutches of repressive bodies that steal their phones and cameras.
For journalist Edgar López, "the categories of violence against the press include physical aggression, violence against women journalists, theft of equipment and harbadment, detention arbitrary, enforced disappearances, death, acts of intimidation and precarious work ".
Edgar López, along with 385 other journalists, has produced a manual to prevent and know how to cope with repressors in the street. According to the SNTP, until 2018, 2,020 attacks against the press took place.
The cyber-activist Luis Carlos Diaz said that the biggest censorship was the lack of access to official sources. He said to Clarin "We do not have any economic or health figures, the worst is the hidden and informative darkness of the regime."
Another form of censorship is to ban the currency from importing paper into newspapers. The last newspaper to close was the newspaper Panorama, which, despite its loyalty to the regime, had no choice but to publish its last print edition this week. With this regional newspaper in Zulia, newspapers are dying in the country. Sixty newspapers with more than 100 years of tradition are underground.
The crisis has forced all Venezuelan newspapers to switch to digital format, competing with new electronic media, which can not escape censorship either, as the regime blocks them as soon as they become critical.
A miracle happened this week: Maduro has unlocked the digital media so that it is visible online as European delegates from the EU 's international contact group were visiting Caracas. Thus, they would not have such a bad impression of chauvinist censorship.
The apparatus of propaganda, censorship and repression against the media consists of Conatel, the Ministry of Communication and Information, and the judicial system controlled by Diosdado Cabello, the number two of the regime, which is in turn President of the National Constituent Assembly, Vice-President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Cabello's television program "Con el mazo dando" is aimed at people who will be arrested and persecuted by journalists, activists and opponents. The repressive organs that execute their orders are the secret police of the Sebin, the military counterespionage (Dgcim), the national guard, the police force of the special actions (Faes) and the paramilitary "collective".
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