EL Universal reports:
Venezuela’s President ordered his governors and mayors to draw “the map of the media war” to determine which media are “owned by oligarchs.” . . .
Chávez said that “were it not for the attacks, the lies, manipulation and exaggeration of the mistakes of the government” by the private media, the popularity of his government would be 80 percent instead of 60 percent or 70 percent, as he claims to have.
“Every mayor, in every city council must make an analysis. How many radio stations are there? What is the content of the programs? Every governor in his or her respective state must do the same analysis. Let us draw a map of the media war. With respect to the newspapers, how many newspapers are owned by the oligarchs in Aragua state, in the municipality of Zamora? There is also a media war on the Internet. There is a daily battle. I beg you to put at the forefront of this battle,” Chávez said.
(Via Reason, via Instapundit.)
The military balked at Chavez’s earlier attempt to create a police state, so now he’s doing it in slow motion.
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