MEXICO CITY -- Protests continued in Venezuela on Tuesday, two days after the government shut down private network RCTV and later announced that it was investigating two other broadcasters for news ...

MEXICO CITY -- Venezuela's government is threatening to pull the plug on private network RCTV once again. By John Hecht, The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Venezuela’s government is threatening to ...

As far as world public opinion is concerned, as reflected in the international media, the pronouncements of freedom of expression groups, and of miscellaneous governments, Venezuela has finally taken ...

As we have previously reported* Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has long been demonised by the Western media as a "leftist firebrand" (The Independent), "Venezuela's demagogue" (Washington Post), and ...

A deadly battle has begun to keep Venezuela’s oldest broadcaster on the air. On Jan. 25, violent protests against the temporary suspension of Radio Caracas Television, ordered by President Hugo Chavez ...

CARACASCARACAS — El canal venezolano Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), que cerró en el 2007 luego que el gobierno se negó a renovarle la licencia, inició el fin de semana sus transmisiones por Internet ...

Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled that broadcasting equipment and infrastructure used by a television channel critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez must be made available to the state-run TV channel ...

BART JONES spent eight years in Venezuela, mainly as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, and is the author of the forthcoming book "Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story, From Mud Hut to Perpetual ...

Chavez has called the new TV channel “socialist television”. The action against the network sparked protests over the weekend. Using water cannons, police dispersed thousands of stone-throwing ...

Venezuelan TV station Radio Caracas Television's (known as RCTV) VHF Channel 2's operating license expired May 27, and it went off the air because the Chavez government, with ample justification, ...

(RSF/IFEX) – On 1 August 2007, a “spurious, last-minute legal pretext” was used to force RCTV, now called RCTV Internacional, to suspend broadcasting for the second time in just over two months, RSF ...