Venezuela vs US: Looming War of the Airwaves

[Sapphire Blue]

Venezuela vs US: Looming War of the Airwaves
by Humberto Márquez

CARACAS -- The Venezuelan Congress approved a resolution opposing a decision by the U.S. House of Representatives to finance radio and TV broadcasts to Venezuela with the aim of countering Telesur, a new pan-Latin American station.
Telesur, a Venezuelan government initiative undertaken in association with Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay, has already drawn the wrath of the United States even before it goes on the air this Sunday.

The U.S. lower house of Congress passed an amendment Wednesday "to initiate radio and television broadcasts that will provide a consistently accurate, objective, and comprehensive source of news to Venezuela" to counter Telesur's "anti-Americanism," in the words of Republican Rep. Connie Mack of Florida, who sponsored the amendment.

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"It is a preposterous imperialist idea that should not surprise us because we know what the U.S. government is capable of," said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, referring to the amendment. "There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate giant."

If the amendment makes it through the Senate and Washington tries to interfere with Venezuela's airwaves, "we will take measures to neutralize the attempt, and what we will have is a kind of electronic warfare," said the left-leaning leader.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-03.htm

[Old and In the Way]

1. How much more American Republican-style Democracy can the world stand?

Hey Connie, why not spend these tax dollars on something like education or healthcare here? Venezuala seems to be doing quite well enacting a people's democracy there.

[rurallib]

2. Think congress would pass a bill so that we, in the US,

could get some of that "consistently accurate, objective and comprehensive " news? OH! what a dream that would be! What? accurate, objective and comprehensive doesn't mean "accurate, objective and comprehensive" but the opposite? Our government wouldn't lie, would it?

[Sapphire Blue]

8. Aaaah, but we have 'fair & balanced' news here.

... the US Gov't is just trying to 'spread' the US kind of democracy (otherwise known as fascism) throughout the world. God bless America. :sarcasm:

Would our government lie? Hmmmm.... flip this coin...

[mikelewis]

3. Whose going to head it? Rupert Murdoch?

Are they going to put on Rush and Glenn Beck? To stop that, I'd go to war too.

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Odds on favorite, no doubt.

[OzarkDem]

9. Who's going to pay for it?

You and I, of course. Hey, we don't need Social Security anyway.

[mikelewis]

15. Not me baby, I'm broke so mostly you - hahaha

God I hate Republicans

[leveymg]

5. "Accurate, objective, and comprehensive source of news"

Sounds like Fox News Caracas to me.:crazy:

[LuCifer]

6. I saw on VHeadline.com that...

...their President (who, by the way, our "President" BUSHitler tried to oust in '02) Chavez ordered up something like 50,000 AK-47s for the citizens, because they are THAT convinced, and RIGHTFULLY SO, that America...take a guess...WANTS THEIR OIL! Oh now come on! Being as how they have the 5th largest oil reserves ON EARTH, naahhh, we wouldn't wanna have anything to do with those guys, RIGHT?! Suuuuuuuuuure.

Lu Cifer, VIVA LE REVOLUTION!

[Greyhound]

7. Here's hoping the war remains in the airwaves.

Good Luck Venezuela! :beer:

[Sapphire Blue]

11. Wonder what kind of fight IWT News will be up against?

http://www.iwtnews.com/

[Lannes]

10. Its like Radio Marti all over again but bigger it seems.

[Stray Roots]

12. Venezuela already has pro-American Venevision

and pro-American CNN in Spanish. This act is being done primarily for domestic consumption. To keep up the Chavez is a dictator meme.

[Sapphire Blue]

13. We should be so lucky to have a 'dictator' like Chavez instead of

... the dictator that we have.

[Sapphire Blue]

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