EFE (via 14ymedio), Berlin, 5 March 2024 — The German television channel DW denounced, this Tuesday, Venezuela’s cancellation of its Spanish-language programming on cable television, a measure it considered an “attack on freedom of the press,” and demanded the restoration of the signal.
“We make a vehement call to the Venezuelan Government to restore the distribution of the DW TV channel in Spanish as soon as possible. The cancellation of DW distribution is a severe attack on the freedom of people in Venezuela to obtain independent information,” Peter Limbourg, DW general director said in a statement.
Limbourg condemned this “attack on press freedom” and noted that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called DW a “Nazi station” in reaction to some of its contents.
The cancellation of DW’s Spanish channel by the Venezuelan authorities, according to DW, comes as a result of a video from the new DW format How It Affects You, which addresses corruption in different Latin American countries – including Venezuela – and the links between politicians and organized crime.
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