1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Attacks on the Press 2000: Venezuela - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="2R70mikaiU"><a href="https://cpj.org/2001/03/attacks-on-the-press-2000-venezuela/">Attacks on the Press 2000: Venezuela</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2001/03/attacks-on-the-press-2000-venezuela/embed/#?secret=2R70mikaiU" width="600" height="338" title="“Attacks on the Press 2000: Venezuela” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="2R70mikaiU" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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THE ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MEDIA and President Hugo Chávez Frías, coupled with some alarming legal developments, prompted CPJ Americas program coordinator Marylene Smeets to visit Venezuela in October to investigate the situation. Read her special report on Venezuela. The report concludes that the president's verbal fusillades seem to have given the population and authorities…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260