LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 20 May 2020

* US telecommunications company AT&T has closed its DirecTV television service in Venezuela, the most popular in the country. A statement by the company cited the “impossibility” of “complying with the legal requirements of both countries”, noting Venezuela’s requirement that DirecTV broadcast news channel Globovisión and the channel of state-owned oil company Pdvsa, and the US government’s prohibition of the transmission of either channel. Diosdado Cabello, the vice president of Venezuela's ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), condemned this as an attempt at “censorship”, and called on Venezuelans to watch broadcasts on YouTube instead.

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