Venezuelan Supreme Court Bans Media From Publishing Lynching Videos

[Bacchus4.0]

Source: The Wire

Caracas: Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Wednesday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create “anxiety and uncertainty” in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.

The OPEC nation’s society is in upheaval amid triple-digit inflation, a deep recession and brutal shortages of food and medicine. As Venezuelans have grown increasingly angry at frequent thefts, hold-ups and homicides, mob beatings and lynchings have increased in the country, which is already one of the world’s most violent.

Gory videos of mob justice or photos of bloody corpses sometimes make the rounds on social media. President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government says the footage is part of a larger plan to sully his administration and stoke unrest in an attempt to unseat him.

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“Media have the right to journalistically express a news event … but these rights should not create anxiety and uncertainty in the population,” the court said.




Read more: http://thewire.in/2016/06/09/venezuelan-supreme-court-bans-media-from-publishing-lynching-videos-41788/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Ah yes, can't publish truth because it might "sully his administration".

Spend time prosecuting lynching publishers, rather than the lynchers. We see what Maduro is doing.

[7962]

3. Bingo!

Oh, and its the CIA's fault too.....

[pretzel4gore]

4. finally, some truth

thanks.
(a guy named rudolph gehlen was one of founders of the secret police ie the'cia' back in post ww2 era. Gehlen was the head of hitler's intelligence service.

[askeptic]

2. Tomorrow's Headline: Don't Worry - Be Happy

and all the stories will be cute and entertaining - so people won't notice their stomachs growling...

Venezuela: A Dictatorship Masquerading as a Democracy

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, recently announced that if the opposition were to gain a majority in the National Assembly in elections this Sunday, “We would not give up the revolution and … we would govern with the people in a civil-military union.” To ensure that no one would accuse him of not being a true democrat, he clarified that “we would do this with the constitution in hand.” The president conveniently ignored the small detail that the constitution does not have any provision for a “civil-military” government, nor does it give the government the option of disregarding the outcome of an election. What Maduro did stress, however, was that if the revolution fails, “there will be a massacre”—a threat he has repeatedly made throughout the campaign. He usually follows such threats with reassurances that this violence will not ensue since it is impossible for opposition candidates to win enough votes for a legislative majority, which Maduro’s party has enjoyed for the past 17 years.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/maduro-venezuela-election-democracy/418860/