[lbo-talk] chavez, bush, the devil and jon stewart

Seth Ackerman sethackerman1 at verizon.net
Tue Sep 26 20:57:14 PDT 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>> "Insulting" Chavez in Venezuela carries a twenty month sentence, btw.
>
>
> It does? What's your source on this? There's certainly a lot of
> criticism of him & his gov going on, no?
>

There is such a law. I'm not so sure about the 20 month sentence, I think you just lose your broadcast license. But not one person has ever been prosecuted under it. It was adopted after the coup.

Seth



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