“We have to stick to legality and institutionality. We have to inform that Nicolás Maduro is the President of Venezuela.” These are the instructions that Magno Barro, radio host of WakaNoticias, a local media outlet in the Amazonas state in the south of Venezuela, received after the results of the presidential elections.
While the streets of the country are full of people calling fraud and with opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado showing the tallies that demonstrate their victory, The National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), the state agency responsible for regulating, supervising and controlling telecommunications is giving direct orders to radio stations to maintain an editorial posture that prohibits the transmission of news that they consider “violates elements classified as violence.”
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