The president, Nicolás Maduro, directly accused the Televisora del Táchira of wanting to “re-militarize” the state. The candidate for re-election once again attacked international media and agencies such as AFP, EFE, AP and CNN En Español, calling them “hitmen of lies.”
On Monday afternoon, the 22nd, President Nicolás Maduro threatened the Televisora del Táchira (TRT) for not broadcasting one of his campaign events, and linked it to alleged paramilitary groups.
During an activity for his candidacy in the city of San Cristóbal, Maduro said that TRT “does not want to show the truth” and directly accused them of wanting “Táchira to become paramilitarized again.”
“Does TRT hate the people? Do they want a government of paramilitaries? Do they support the extreme right wing paramilitaries? I don’t want to believe that about TRT,” Maduro insisted in his speech against the regional media outlet, founded in July 1989.
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He pointed out that both the media and the citizens are “the first beneficiaries of our winning peace and security, and that Táchira has the greatest security it has ever had since the time of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. They are the ones who live comfortably, in peace, who are no longer kidnapped or charged taxes. Or am I lying?”
#NOW | The SNTP (@sntpvenezuela) denounced that Nicolás Maduro publicly intimidated the Regional Television Station of the state. #TáchiraTRT News (@NoticiasTRT).
“Could it be that TRT hates the people, could it be that they want a government of paramilitaries? Could it be that they support the extreme… pic.twitter.com/kzwrAT6NOu
— VPItv (@VPITV) July 22, 2024
The candidate for reelection once again attacked international media and agencies such as AFP, EFE, AP and CNN En Español, calling them “hitmen of lies” and accusing them of spreading lies and alleged information to validate an alleged plan of violence by the opposition on the day of the presidential elections.
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The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) He stressed that this is a repeated behavior by Maduro during the presidential elections, and also included in his threats national television stations, without specifying which ones, for spreading lies.
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