Chávez sends military to close radio-stations

Porto Alegre, August 22, 2008

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, sent soldiers to confiscate equipments from the radio-stations Rumbera Network and Llanera, both from Guarico. The radios now cannot broadcast. Chávez is acting in this state because the governor Eduardo Mannuit is a dissident from his government and his party, the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela). According to Chávez, the radios have political use.