Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela
Venezuelan reporter’s van set on fire
Lilia Giménez, a journalist at El Anaquense, a privately-owned newspaper, was the victim of an attack at her house, which she says is linked to the publication of reports on the management by government officials within the ruling party.
Venezuelan cartoonists and writers receive anonymous threats
Since March 15, 2013, Rayma Suprani, cartoonist; Leonardo Padrón, writer; Laureano Márquez, comedian; Mariela Celis, radio and TV show host and the journalists Ibeyise Pachecho, Francisco (Kiko) Bautista, Nitu Pérez Osuna, Mary Montes, Milagros Socorro, Berenice Gómez, Alberto Federico Ravell among other public personalities have been subjected to death threats, insults, disqualification of their work […]
Venezuela’s executive tells private station to change its reporting
Directors of Globovisión, a private TV station, have received calls from the Minister of Communications and Information, Ernesto Villegas, who has allegedly threatened to control their content regarding the death of the president Hugo Chávez.
Owner of private TV station in Venezuela says it will be sold
Guillermo Zuloaga, one of the largest shareholders of Globovisión, a private TV station announced that the channel will be sold. He admitted that for political, economic and legal reasons, the channel is economically unfeasible.
Police accuse Venezuelan journalist of instigating prison crime
The Scientific, Penal and Criminalistic Research Corps has attempted to implicate journalist Juan José Farías with charges for allegedly instigating crime and associating with criminals, for the publication of several pieces on an event that happened in Maracaibo.
Lack of transparency in information on Venezuelan president’s health
Records kept by IPYS-Venezuela on the right to freedom of expression and information show that the national government’s handling of information on the health of the president has been lacking in transparency, resulting in an aggressive discourse towards the national and foreign press.
IFEX members call for release of 13 Vietnamese activists
Thirty IFEX members protested the sentencing of bloggers, citizen journalists and rights activists, jailed for up to 13 years in the biggest ever trial of pro-democracy activists in Vietnam.
Venezuelan private TV station investigated for “inciting anxiety”
The National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has opened administrative proceedings against private television station Globovisión, in connection with four programmes broadcast by the station referring to the Constitution.