The 27 of June of 1818, when the Mail of the Orinoco was published for the first time, ran by the national territory freedom airs, brought of the hand of seasoned and emancipatory Bolivar. In honor to that date, the Day of the Journalist is commemorated, a professional who by the nature of the exercise of his profession is a universal fighter by a righter world, plural and frees.
Today, 189 years later, this 27 of June of 2007, other Venezuelans integrated by students, journalists, intellectuals, artists, mothers of family, representatives of unions and professionals, among others citizen, have been sent to the streets, of pacific way but it signs, demanding respect by the fundamental rights of freedom, justice and democracy. And it never is behind schedule when the cause is right.
President Hugo Chavez, has eight long years cornering to all citizen or institution that “he has dared” to dissent of his aims. Their “targets” are of ample phantom: political parties, educative institutions, professional and enterprise unions, unions, Churches, companies, and by mainly, mass media, workers of the press, signallers and journalists. In these eight years the freedom balance is negative for the country: Several workers of the communication have been assassinated. In the jails there are prisoners to think and hundreds of journalists confront judgments in slanted courts. The radioelectric space of RCTV was confiscated. And while means survive folds the official jaw, on others the explicit threat of the President hangs to close them if they do not submit to the regime.
In his scaling to limit the citizen liberties and rights the agent chief executive uses of grotesque way the electrical phantom radio to his free will and arbitrarily he imposes interminable “chains” with obligatory transmissions on national scale, except for the abundant obligatory transmissions of official propaganda. Another perverse mechanism of pressure is the obstruction, and even impediment, to independent mass media to the access to the sources of intelligence of the public sector, soon to label them as parcializados to omit “truthful and opportune” information.
The Government has managed to criminalize the divergent opinion and the objective and impartial information. On the one hand, the reform of the Penal Code in 2005, turned into crime the minimum insult to the President, who is punished with prison sentence of six to 30 months, without right to guarantee. And even, the disrespect to civil servants of smaller rank grieves. On the other hand, with the Law Jaw, the content, the messages, the structure and schedule of the programming of all the radioelectric means was affected. Apart from which this law, like so many others by this Government, takes implicit measures that oppose with the private property and the economic freedom. And even though the same have still not been applied in all their rigor, they are there like Sword of Damocles, seized and to the delay to dominate discretionarily to whatever it differs of the regime. Today - yesterday, Day of the Journalist, thousands of Venezuelans march united in a single outcry: Freedom!
Today, 189 years later, this 27 of June of 2007, other Venezuelans integrated by students, journalists, intellectuals, artists, mothers of family, representatives of unions and professionals, among others citizen, have been sent to the streets, of pacific way but it signs, demanding respect by the fundamental rights of freedom, justice and democracy. And it never is behind schedule when the cause is right.
President Hugo Chavez, has eight long years cornering to all citizen or institution that “he has dared” to dissent of his aims. Their “targets” are of ample phantom: political parties, educative institutions, professional and enterprise unions, unions, Churches, companies, and by mainly, mass media, workers of the press, signallers and journalists. In these eight years the freedom balance is negative for the country: Several workers of the communication have been assassinated. In the jails there are prisoners to think and hundreds of journalists confront judgments in slanted courts. The radioelectric space of RCTV was confiscated. And while means survive folds the official jaw, on others the explicit threat of the President hangs to close them if they do not submit to the regime.
In his scaling to limit the citizen liberties and rights the agent chief executive uses of grotesque way the electrical phantom radio to his free will and arbitrarily he imposes interminable “chains” with obligatory transmissions on national scale, except for the abundant obligatory transmissions of official propaganda. Another perverse mechanism of pressure is the obstruction, and even impediment, to independent mass media to the access to the sources of intelligence of the public sector, soon to label them as parcializados to omit “truthful and opportune” information.
The Government has managed to criminalize the divergent opinion and the objective and impartial information. On the one hand, the reform of the Penal Code in 2005, turned into crime the minimum insult to the President, who is punished with prison sentence of six to 30 months, without right to guarantee. And even, the disrespect to civil servants of smaller rank grieves. On the other hand, with the Law Jaw, the content, the messages, the structure and schedule of the programming of all the radioelectric means was affected. Apart from which this law, like so many others by this Government, takes implicit measures that oppose with the private property and the economic freedom. And even though the same have still not been applied in all their rigor, they are there like Sword of Damocles, seized and to the delay to dominate discretionarily to whatever it differs of the regime. Today - yesterday, Day of the Journalist, thousands of Venezuelans march united in a single outcry: Freedom!
