Michael Parenti -- Venezuela part 1!

All the big media of the entire planet raised their voice against the democratic government of Venezuela for non-renewal of the license of RCTV. The continuous irregularities in its operation and its support for the coup d'état were no obstacles to preservation of its frequency, since the "freedom of expression" of the owners of the channel was the superior good.

It happened that, in the middle of media commotion, the Spanish television Antena 3 organized a debate to which it invited Professors Luis Alegre Zahonero and Carlos Fernández Liria, who demolished the undemocratic argument of Nitu Perez Osuna. This program appeared on the video server YouTube, uploaded by the user Lbracci, and it was published in Aporrea as well as in Rebelión.

The owners of the Spanish channel did not like the result of the debate, so they went to YouTube to remove the video because "it violated the author's rights." Nevertheless, that does not appear to be the real motive, since, if we go to this popular site and search for "Antena 3" among the videos, an endless number of programs that are still on the server show up, among them many series with a clearer commercial interest than the aforementioned debate and an interview with Marcel Granier. From another point of view, to claim the rights of authorship for a debate in which four other people participated at the station is a clear abuse of rights.

But YouTube has not been satisfied with censoring the video cited above -- instead. it has suspended the user account of "Lbracci" and has eliminated 453 other videos saved in 2006 and 2007. The injured party says that "between 16 May and 10 June 2007 (a period of 25 days), we uploaded approximately 250 videos that were seen 1,400,000 times by people ALL OVER THE WORLD (an average of 56,000 views per day). Although the Internet is not yet a medium that reaches all sectors of the Venezuelan population, nevertheless thousands of people inside and outside our country saw, day in day out, videos of VTV programming, thanks to this effort that we made, sincerely, free of charge."



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[punkXrock420]

VIVA CHAVEZ

VIVA FIDEL

VIVA MORALES

[EuropeanComrade1]

Yet another exile lying about Venezuela...

...oh... too bad. I'm sorry that you don't get to sip champagne in Venezuela and drive fancy cars... we're sorry for caring about the poor and wanting a better life for all...

Yeah right...

I wonder how the poor felt when you were in power... oh that's right, that's the reason WHY CHAVEZ WAS ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!

[lordthorpez]

Anybody else have trouble with the video?

[kaleo183rd]

@EuropeanComrade1 Especially, that I'm coming from a 3rd world perspective, (I'm latino), I live in inequality, I study, Political science, Economics, Sociology, history, and I see that we are able to produce, and provide sooo much, but the greed of the ruling class, is a true tradegy

[kaleo183rd]

@EuropeanComrade1 iTS AMAZING, WHEN THE RICH AND THE coporations, and the US hate you, You can be labeled an honest man of the people

[kaleo183rd]

@punkXrock420 eso son los hombres ayudando la gente, y los EEUU< europa, los ricos de latino america y coporaciones, que van a destruir, y hacer la gente esclavos de economia

VIVA LA REVOLUCION

[kaleo183rd]

@neosoc exactly,

[neosoc]

You know that when a man's harshest critics are the American government, rich Latinos in Miami, and Pat Robertson... he can't be all that bad.

[neosoc]

@dabcore I wouldn't compare Hugo Chavez, possibly the world's last honest politician, to a dictator like Robert Mugabe. But I get your sentiment.

[serbbandit]

hugo chavez is a legend

[orbis2009]

Michael Parenti is the last defender of the Soviet Union and Mao's China. He has the wondrous gift of being able to overlook tens of millions of dead---many times over---and to see nice things from the Gulag towers. He is the Pollyanna of such brutal Centralized regimes. Parenti believes the Ant colony is a marvelous paradigm for a new economic Order----and you are the ant.

[dabcore]

I admire Chavez because he has balls. I had the courage and audacity to call Bush a simmering devil at the UN. Chavez has already proven himself to be a real man. I wish African leaders were like him. The only one in Africa that even comes close to him is President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe