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Weekly Report - 4 January 2007

VENEZUELA: Private TV station to lose broadcasting licence

Just weeks after an election victory largely predicated on a promise of more of the same, President Hugo Chávez stirred up the opposition by announcing that he will let the broadcasting licence for Venezuela's oldest commercial television station expire when it comes up for renewal in March. Chávez denounced Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), founded in 1953, as a coup-supporting, destabilising force which had lost its right to broadcast due to its long record of encouraging the overthrow of the government.

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