{"id":26929,"date":"2011-09-19T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26929"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:34:21","slug":"venezuela-ministry-denies-newspaper-press-access-following-critical-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26929","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Ministry denies newspaper press access following critical report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press access to\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuelan<\/a> ministry representatives <a title=\"Knight Center - Venezuelan ministry denies newspaper access\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/venezuelan-ministry-denies-newspaper-press-access-following-critical-report\" target=\"_blank\">has been restricted<\/a>.\u00a0The Venezuelan\u00a0Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC in Spanish) told <a title=\"TalCualDigital - TalCual reporters were barred by the Communications Office of the Caracas Metro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talcualdigital.com\/nota\/visor.aspx?id=58079&amp;tipo=AVA\" target=\"_blank\">the newspaper TalCual<\/a> that they would no longer be able to speak to representatives following the publication of a report detailing problems with the Metro system in the capital, Caracas.\u00a0The Press and Society Institute has criticised the Ministry&#8217;s decision, stating that it is against the Venezuelan constitution &#8220;which guarantees the right to access of public information in Article 28&#8221;. In 2010, TalCual was closed by the government following their publication of\u00a0a\u00a0satirical editorial describing an imaginary Venezuela without President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press access to\u00a0Venezuelan ministry representatives has been restricted.\u00a0The Venezuelan\u00a0Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC in Spanish) told the newspaper TalCual that they would no longer be able to speak to representatives following the publication of a report detailing problems with the Metro system in the capital, Caracas.\u00a0The Press and Society Institute has criticised the Ministry&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,727,7348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84689,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions\/84689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}