The Venezuelan government "has every right not to renew the broadcast license for Radio Caracas Television (RCTV)," said Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Santos.

"It is an agreement that has expired; it is a license that is over, and the government of Venezuela, using its rights, did not renew it," he told Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa.
 
Last May 27, members of the Sandinist Front demonstrated outside the Venezuelan Embassy to support President Hugo Chávez' decision not to renew RCTV license, the official news agency ABN reported.

On Tuesday, the president of the Nicaraguan-Venezuelan Solidarity Committee Janina Guerrero said they supported the suspension of RCTV  license because this channel endorsed a coup d'etat against Chávez in 2002.