The government has set a strategy to counteract the global "attack of the media," said Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro.

As stated by the senior official, the action was presumably taken by the owners of Empresas 1BC due to the government refusal to renew a broadcast license for private TV channel Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV).
 
"Our country's responsiveness has been reinforced to counter the lies of the 'association of the untouchable,' which is the gang of the owners of the media in most part of the world. One of these gangsters is around the world telling lies, trying to damage the public image, the image of Venezuela abroad. However, they simply are crashing into the big truth of the Venezuelan people," said the senior official.

"Delegations of the National Assembly (AN) have left for Europe" to provide a rationale for non-renewal of the broadcast license and to explain the communications model that will be bolstered by the Venezuelan government, according to a press release from the Foreign Ministry.