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| Subject: Corrupt Venezuelan poLICE Raid Offices of Innocent TV Executive Fri May 22, 2009 4:00 am | |
| CARACAS, Venezuela — Agents from the intelligence police on Thursday night raided the offices of the president of a major television network that opposes the government’s policies, marking an aggressive turn in President Hugo Chávez’s threat this month to take punitive action against one of his most vociferous critics in the media.
The raid was captured by the cameras of the Globovisión network, as well as those of state television crews accompanying the agents, as they forced their way into the property of Guillermo Zuloaga in an exclusive district here. Shoving broke out between the agents and a female lawyer for Mr. Zuloaga, who was not at the property.
The raid follows an investigation of Globovisión initiated this month at the behest of Mr. Chávez, opening the possibility of temporarily or permanently shutting the network down. Earlier this month, Mr. Chávez reacted angrily to Globovisión’s coverage of a mild earthquake here in which the network reported news of the event before state media did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/world/americas/22venez.html?ref=global-home |
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