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Venezuela sues CNN for linking
Chavez to Al-Qaeda |
May 29, 2007: CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela
filed lawsuits Monday against US cable network CNN for
linking President Hugo Chavez to Al-Qaeda, and against a
Venezuelan TV network for encouraging Chavez's
assassination.
The move comes one day after popular TV network RCTV went
off the air after the Chavez government yanked its broadcast
license.
Information Minister William Lara showed at a press
conference what he said was CNN footage displaying pictures
of Chavez juxtaposed with those of an Al-Qaeda leader.
CNN also aired a story about the Venezuelan protests, but
used images taken in Mexico of an unrelated story, Lara
said.
"CNN broadcast a lie which linked President Chavez to
violence and murder," Lara said. |
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The government also sued Venezuelan network Globovision for
what they said was indirectly encouraging Chavez's murder by
airing footage of the 1981 assassination attempt on the late
pope John Paul II.
"In my view, this television network, in this specific part
of its programming, committed the offense of incitement to
assassination, against the Venezuelan head of state," Lara
said.
The charges comes amid protests against Chavez's shutdown of
RCTV, a privately-owned broadcaster of popular comedy and
drama shows that was boldly critical of Chavez.
After 54 years on the air, RCTV went black at midnight
Sunday after the government refused to renew its license. It
was promptly replaced by TVes, a state-backed "socialist"
station which began broadcasting cultural shows.
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