CARACAS, Monday October 06, 2008 | Update
Earl Maucker, the President of the IAPA, will leave his post at the end of the Assembly (Photo: Manuel de León / Efe)
Politics
The president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA),
Earl Maucker, said on Monday that "no society can be free
without a free press," at the inauguration of the 64th General
Assembly of the IAPA in Madrid.
"We want everyone to understand the meaning of freedom of
expression and freedom of speech and what it implies to achieve
one's aspirations," the editor of the South Florida's newspaper
Sun Sentinel said.
"Our task is to allow citizens access to the right to knowledge,"
Maucker said. For the president of IAPA, this task is facing
a "complex enemy" such as "violence and crime and the enemy
behind censorship."
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."