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Weekly Report - 29 May 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
VENEZEULA: Chávez tries to avert fresh media controversy
The minister of information and communications, Andrés Izarra,
resigned this week after less than a year in the job. Izarra said he had decided
to step down after having agreed to charge private television stations for the
right to retransmit official images, such as government speeches, from the
state-owned broadcaster Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). He said he made an error
of judgement by not consulting President Hugo Chávez beforehand.
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