The government's attacks against the
media seem to have intensified since the possibility of revoking Maduro’s
presidency was put on the table. On Aug. 30, a pro-government group threw
explosives and excrement at El Nacional, the main independent newspaper in the
country. A week earlier, gunmen fired at the headquarters of Diario de Los
Andes, a prominent newspaper in the west of the country. In June, the
headquarters of another newspaper, Correo del Caroní, were vandalized. Its
editor, David Natera Febres, is currently in prison on charges of defamation
after his paper uncovered an extortion ring in the mining industry led by an
army colonel. More…
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