CARACAS, Friday November 28, 2008 | Update
Country
Officials from Venezuela's National Telecommunication Commission
(Conatel) visited the seat of private TV news channel Globovisión
to give notice of another administrative investigation into
the television network, for alleged solicitation to public
order disturbance when the station broadcast remarks of then
Carabobo state governor candidate Henrique Salas Feo before
the National Electoral Council (CNE) stated he was the winner.
According to CNE director Vicente Díaz, the statements
of now Carabobo governor-elect Salas Feo came after the top
electoral body published the first official bulletin of electoral
results. Therefore, they do not imply any electoral offense.
Meanwhile, Globovisión's legal counsel Ana Cristina
Núñez confirmed that "Conatel has no powers to address
issues related to election results."
Further general director of the TV news channel Alberto Federico
Ravell said that the investigation was launched because the
Venezuelan President and his cabinet are grieving after they
lost political ground in the country.
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."