Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433
WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."
Re:Uh oh (Score:1, Funny)
Agreed... th3j35t3r needs to learn some Spanish!
Re:I'm still appalled that anyone defends Chavez (Score:3, Funny)
Oh Christ, Penn's off his meds again? I mean seriously - he should be wearing a jacket with sleeves that wrap all the way around and tie at the back.
Look at the bright side though: the best supporter Chavez can rustle up is Penn. I don't see his policies sweeping the free world any time soon.
Re:I'm still appalled that anyone defends Chavez (Score:5, Funny)
there was joke told in central Europe (formet soviet satellites):
introduce socialism in countries in the Sahara desert area, and in 3 years they will be shortages of sand.
bzzt (Score:1, Funny)
It would be helpful to know that although those tv stations were directly linked to [mondediplo.com]the 2002 coup [guardian.co.uk] Chavez had not gone after them at the time.
I would also like to inform me about another dictator that has gained 70% of the votes at the elections that the US said that were 100% legitimate,or another dictator that has eliminated iliteracy [venezuelas...ity.org.uk] in his country, that has brought cheap sate food shops [rnv.gov.ve] to the starving from free market people thus eliminating hunger, and has provided the poorest with free quality healthcare [thirdworldtraveler.com].
Re:I'm still appalled that anyone defends Chavez (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine Rush Limbaugh multiplied by 1000x (Score:2, Funny)
To get an idea of what Chavez has to deal with, imagine if the nutcases running the tea party were in charge, and that Fox News was every station. Imagine Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh multipied by about 100x. Imagine that they not only advocated overthrowing the government, but actually put those words into action in an unsuccessful coup attempt. They cooperated with the military and helped promote the transition to a new government before Chavez's followers put him back into office. In the US, they wouldn't be alive after something like that. It would be called treason and they would be hung. We would hang them, and then we would go on to talk about how repressive other societies are. In Venezuela, the wealthy have so much power that he had little choice but to let them continue for another 8 years until their licenses ran out. To describe the situation as a power hungry dictator ruling with an iron fist is just bonkers.
Re:Argh, you're right (Score:4, Funny)
Damn catchy chant.
Re:Imagine Rush Limbaugh multiplied by 1000x (Score:1, Funny)
To get an idea of what Chavez has to deal with, imagine if the nutcases running the tea party were in charge, and that Fox News was every station. Imagine Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh multipied by about 100x. Imagine that they not only advocated overthrowing the government, but actually put those words into action in an unsuccessful coup attempt. They cooperated with the military and helped promote the transition to a new government before Chavez's followers put him back into office. In the US, they wouldn't be alive after something like that. It would be called treason and they would be hung. We would hang them, and then we would go on to talk about how repressive other societies are. In Venezuela, the wealthy have so much power that he had little choice but to let them continue for another 8 years until their licenses ran out. To describe the situation as a power hungry dictator ruling with an iron fist is just bonkers.
Sean Penn, is that you?
disapointed with slashdot (Score:0, Funny)
Hey, I never expected this. I thought slashdot was full of smart people. Apparently it's stuffed with zombies without a sense of critical thinking.
You guys just read something "Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested" and eat it up wiht your eyes closed. South america has been generally under the control of the CIA, chavez is trying to set venezuela free from that tragic condition. Clearly there is a lot of people that don't want to give their priviledges away without a fight, so they come up with misinformation campaigns like this one. Tv in venezuela was basically a disgusting lobby that served a group of small rich people. They clearly used it to try to foul people.
That's the tip of the iceberg, if you want to know what really happens in there, go and dig deep into a proper amount of information... Now, making endless discussions based on manipulaed headlines... I am sorry, you might be better off going and watch alice in wonderland.
Lastly, I care zero about how seriously you take this message, but in my opinion, these discussions are ridiculously pretentious.
El pequeño Hugo Chávez (Score:3, Funny)
Or, someone could hire this midget to imitate him, and post it all over the intertubes. Let's see Chávez portray /that/ as a CIA attack!
Yo soy el pequeño Hugo Chávez. Me encanta el socialismo!