In this exclusive interview, writer and journalist Maria Elena Lavaud talks to us about the state of freedom of expression in Venezuela. Lavaud is the host of the TV talk show En Privado for Globovisión, a private television station that has been repeatedly sanctioned by the Chávez government.
”I am reacting [to the corruption] in my own way. Someone is protesting. Somebody is a doing hunger strike in India. [As for me,] I am a cartoonist.” - Aseem Trivedi, political cartoonist
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“If not for the media, I would have 80% popularity.” – Hugo Chávez
Venezuelan cartoonist Roberto Weil portrays President Hugo Chávez as a boot in response to a law which prohibits depictions of the likeness of the president and of patriotic symbols.
For more, read our piece “Under Chavez: Media Harassed with Online Hacking, Phone Tapping and Censorship.”
In light of China’s new year Lantern Festival, we take a look back at the heightened crackdown on dissidents in 2011 with a timeline infographic detailing some of the arrests of writers, journalists and activists.
Check out a more detailed timeline at Sampsonia Way
An interview with President of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama and Graham Davis of UK Sky News
In the paradise island of Fiji the government continues its relentless media crackdown. Fiji is currently ranked alongside Zimbawe and Venezuela on the Reporters Without Borders Index.
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