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Four topics[edit]

These are the topics: Culture of Venezuela, Television in Venezuela, Law enforcement in Venezuela and Internet in Venezuela. I would like to talk about Television in Venezuela because it's an interesting topic.


Good topic! You need to add this page to the website list. Need help? Go to the course page, scroll down to your name and there should be a box for you to type in the name of the wiki page. Ajungle (talk) 22:41, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you professor Jung! OK, I will do that. Catira24 (talk) 17:17, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Assignment 5-Sources[edit]

The following is a list of sources I would like to use for my main project Television in Venezuela:

1) Navasky, V. (2007). Mission to Caracas. Nation. pp. 6,23-24.

2) Ballve, T. (2003). Venezuela: Community Broadcaster Shut Down. NACLA Report on the Americas, l. 37, No. 2.

3) Klein, N. (2003). Venezuela's Media Coup. Vol. 276, No. 8, p. 10.

4)STELLING, M. (2012). The Captured Truth in Venezuela. Vol. 45, No. 3, p. 49-52.

5) Economist. (2007). Broadcast battles. Vol. 384, No. 8538, p. 38-39.

6) Carroll, R . (2007). Chávez silences critical TV station - and robs the people of their soaps. The Guardian. Retrieved from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/may/23/venezuela.broadcasting

Wiki 6 - Summary of planned changes to article[edit]

I would like to add a section with an extensive research to expand the information on this page regarding: the regulation of Television in Venezuela, who Controls the Media? and the two media societies. My purpose is to benefit the readers with accurate and updated information. Adding reliable information sources could benefit its wiki page and also make the reader feel that they are being well informed.

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Wiki 7 Adding Articles to the Main Space[edit]

These are the main points that I would like to add to the main page and I am still working on it. This is the rough draft:

1) History: The media in Venezuela was controlled

The media was controlled by Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) the former socialist president of Venezuela. Although he was elected democratically, he got involved in a lot of demagoguery and his government was seen by some opponents as "an authoritarian hammer that is crushing free speech."[1] However, Chavez was re-elected and it was considered free and just by the international community.[2]

Former President Hugo Chavez and his government were taking control of the media in Venezuela, Chavez used legislation to shut down on broadcasters and other media. RCTV, an old television channel very seen by Venezuelans and with a high rate of audience was the first shut down by the government of Chavez in May 2007. Chavez refused to renew the broadcasting license to RCTV because Radio Caracas Televisión RCTV supported the political opposition against Chavez government and they were total disagreement with his capitalist ideas.[3] In addition, "Caracas Mayor Alfredo Peña shut down Catia TV, a pro-government community television and radio station in Caracas, on July 10." [4] Many stations and television channels were protesting and they claimed that they had lost the freedom of expression in the media. "Opposition journalists repeatedly mentioned lack of access, withholding of public advertising, content restrictions and countless defamation suits."[5]

The government of former President Hugo Chavez repeatedly issued sanctions against television and radio stations for violating the rules. In most cases, it was about dispositions that affected a particular station, with barely any protests. In 2002, different reports says that the former president Hugo Chavez was moving forcefully to restrain media criticism by closing several of radio stations, tightening controls on one TV station and maneuvering to take control of another. Chavez said, "Don't be surprised if we start shutting down television stations," at the end of January because "No information on Chávez, his followers, his ministers, and all others that could in any way be related to him" should not be shown on TV if it shows "disrespect" to his government.[6]

Radio Caracas Televisión RCTV started broadcasting on November 15, 1953. It was the third television network to begin operations in Venezuela. RCTV had an important role in Venezuelan popular culture. Since that time, soap operas have been an important part of RCTV's programming as much as it has been part of Venezuelan culture. The programming of RCTV always interpreted, reflected and described the customs of contemporary Venezuela. This was evidenced by the high ratings of the network.[7]

RCTV was highly critical of the Chavez government, have also been critical of many governments in the past, and often had allied with the opposition movement against the government.[8] After of threats and attacks on the station by the Venezuelan government, Hugo Chavez on May 27, 2007, shut down the most popular TV station in the nation by not renew RCTV's broadcast license. RCTV began broadcasting via cable and satellite service providers in July 2007, as RCTV Internacional. On January 23, 2010, RCTV-I did not deliver a speech by President Chavez and that same day the government asked companies publicly cable and satellite operators to take RCTV-I off the air. Chavez's said, would not tolerate media “at the service of coup-plotting, against the people, against the nation, against the national independence and against the dignity of the Republic.”[9]


  1. ^ Rory, Carroll. "Chávez silences critical TV station - and robs the people of their soaps". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Navasky, Victor (2007). "Mission to Caracas". Nation. 284 (8): 6.
  3. ^ "The Americas: Broadcast battles; Venezuela". The Economist. 298. Jul 21, 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ^ Ballve, Teo (2003). "Venezuela: Community Broadcaster Shut Down". NACLA Report on the Americas. 37 (2): 1.
  5. ^ Navasky, Victor (2007). "Mission to Caracas". Nation. 284 (8): 23.
  6. ^ Klein, Naomi (2003). "Venezuela's Media Coup". Nation. 276 (8): 10. {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 18 (help)
  7. ^ Rory, Carroll. "Chávez silences critical TV station - and robs the people of their soaps". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "The Americas: Broadcast battles; Venezuela". The Economist. 298. Jul 21, 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Navasky, Victor (2007). "Mission to Caracas". Nation. 284 (8): 6, 23.

Wiki 7[edit]

I added the articles to the actual Television in Venezuela page.

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Wiki 8 Modifications of my actual article[edit]

These are the additions I would like to add to Television in Venezuela page.

The two media societies

1) The pro-government media side defends governmental management because this media side defines itself as a promoter of "liberties, participation, access, and opportunities."

2) While the pro-opposition media side "attacks from any side: political, economic, education, security, environmental, etc." This media side is defined as failing to recognize the "merit of those virtues, intent on undermining civil, political, social, and economic rights and freedom." The pro-gobernment media claims that "everyone has the right to freedom of the press" and "everyone has the right to inform and be informed." (STELLING, M.(2012), The Captured Truth in Venezuela. p. 52)

I also added my name as a reviewer for 2 peer articles: Aflemington11 and Lcollins09.

Wiki 9[edit]

I made some comments and feedback for the peer reviews for Aflemington11 and Lcollins09.

Wiki 10[edit]

Because nobody made suggestions about my article, I made my finals edits by myself. I revised my article to make sure my sentences are clear and complete. I reworded some sentences, I also checked my grammar and punctuation to make sure my article is free from errors. Finally, I checked again my link sources to make sure that all my citations are correct and visible on the page. I am satisfied with the contribution I did to Wiki and I feel like I made meaningful additions.

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 01:57, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I was working on both posts but I already signed my posts.Catira24 (talk) 02:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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