In a text message broadcast by the journalist Leonaldi Meza, he explained that the director of the Furia 89.9 FM station in the state of Barinas, indicated -without offering further details- that the program should cease its broadcasts, although the greater weight was due to a comment made by the journalist about a confrontation via microphone that occurred with the head of PDVSA Gas Comunal and the entity’s governor, Sergio Garrido, over the disappearance of some 32,000 gas cylinders
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the radio show Analysis Table which was under the leadership of the journalist Leonaldi Meza through Fury 89.9 FM in the state of Barinas, went off the air this Friday, May 12, due to alleged political pressure, according to the same journalist after saying goodbye to his audience.
In a text message that Meza disseminated, he explained that the director of the station received a call – without offering further details – that the program should cease its transmissions, although the greater weight was due to a comment made by the journalist about a confrontation via microphone that occurred with the head of PDVSA Gas Comunal and the governor of the entity, Sergio Garridofor the disappearance of some 32 thousand cylinders of gas bottles.
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“In these times it is not so easy to carry out information and opinion programs in Barinas,” said Meza. It is very difficult to undergo many controls to be able to do this type of program, “added the space host who had been with that opinion program for 3 months.
For her part, Delsa Solórzano, presidential candidate for Encuentro Ciudadano, denounced This Friday, May 12, Leonaldi Meza’s radio program, “Mesa de Análisis”, was taken off the air after interviewing her.
«They canceled the radio program of the journalist Leonaldi Meza for interviewing me in Barinas and for having denounced the theft of thousands of gas cylinders in the state. All my solidarity, respect and admiration for the free press. Leonaldi, leaving the program, went to accompany me to the press conference and told me that he is not going to give up. These things only happen in a dictatorship,” said the candidate.
#Important #Dictatorship The journalist’s radio program is canceled @LEONALDIMEZA for interviewing me in #Barinas and for having denounced the theft of thousands of gas bottles in the state.
All my solidarity, respect and admiration for the free press.
Leonaldi, leaving the… pic.twitter.com/zaSasjUOvW
— Delsa Solorzano (@delsasolorzano) May 12, 2023
It is not the first time that, due to pressure from the Venezuelan government, some radio programs in the state of Barinas are no longer on the air. In November 2021, radial spaces Impact Newscast and The best of Barinas ceased their transmissions that went out through Impact 107.1 FM.
The NGO Public Space recalled from this case that, only in the year 2022, they registered the closure of at least 81 radio stations in Venezuela, an action carried out mainly by the National Telecommunications Commission and that this reduces the ability of citizens to access information in general.
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