Thursday, September 8, 2016

Venezuela’s under-fire government clamps down on media

Journalists are facing a worsening crackdown in crisis-torn Venezuela as the besieged socialist government takes harsh action against critical media. Foreign correspondents have recently been denied entry and a reporter for the Miami Herald was deported. Alleged pro-government protesters have hurled Molotov cocktails and excrement at the offices of the last remaining national opposition-leaning newspaper, while local journalists have been detained and questioned by intelligence agents, and television crews threatened by supposed leftist loyalists. More…

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