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Censored
August 23
Television news programs, CENSORED
The National Television Committee (CNT) ordered television news programs not to transmit unofficial information that "aggravates public order." The government decree was in response to television coverage of clashes between soldiers and coca farmers demonstrating against government prohibitions on cultivation of the crop in the towns of Caqueta and Putumayo. Some members of the Colombian Congress, apparently angered by news reports, lobbied for an amendment to Television Law 182 in an effort to delay the extension of the current licenses of the news programs.
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