Growing concern over Venezuelan government threats to silence the media...

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Speaking at a meeting of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) in Madrid, Venezuelan broadsheet El Nacional (The Nation) editor Miguel Enrique Otero said that there is growing concern over Venezuelan government threats to silence the media. Otero was commenting what he describes as "a very impressive report on Venezuela" in which the Chavez government is criticized for a series of measured that the international organization (SIP in Spanish) views as repressive and restrictive.

Otero adds that "in an election campaign like the one we are seeing at the moment, opposition candidates say they are looking for a peaceful election process to elect mayors and governors, but that the government is instigating a negative campaign hooked on the government's fears of assassination and a coup d'etat in the making."

The Chavez government alleges that Otero and Globovision director Alberto Federico Ravell are involved in seditious moves as the ringleaders of a plot to assassinate the President and to being about a coup d'etat. Otero says government's actions in this regard are symptomatic of how dictatorial governments, when threatened by public opinion, take measures to intimidate their opponents and to stop the growth of democratic opposition.

The El Nacional editor adds that the SIP "will make certain resolutions and recommendations at the end of its Assembly" and notes that all of the Western World's newspapers will pay attention to the November 23 local and regional elections in Venezuela, and witness how "the Chavez government is planning to convert the electoral process into violent clashes." he said. "Many journalists will cover the elections, and the moments leading up to the elections, and of course, they will be monitored by human rights organizations etc in Venezuela ... there will probably be a delegation from the IAPA/SIP although it has not yet been officially announced."

Meanwhile, Globovision director, Alberto Federico Ravell says that "the situation of the media and press freedom is an increasingly sensitive issue in Venezuela!"
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