Today, the National Assembly began approving the new “Bill for social responsibility of the media” also called the “muzzle law” by the opposition. They only approved the title and the first article of the Bill, but managed to modify what had been discussed. The innovation this time is that they included subscription TV as being a subject of the law, which implies the Government could block Direct TV subversive programs, such as CNN or Seinfeld if it felt like it.
Separately the Head of Human Rights organization COFAVIC warned two days ago that the new changes in the penal code include a penalty of thirty years in jail for any organization that receives international funding. She warned that besides the threat to ONG’s like Sumate, this threatens all human rights organizations who only receive funding from international sources and are the only ones denouncing the daily human rights violations of the Government.
As they say: “Looks like fascism, quacks like fascism, walks like fascism …do you really wonder what it is?”
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