Connecticut General Assembly. Free Speech is Alive and Well in Venezuela. June 21, 2007 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The government of Venezuela decided not to renew a broadcast license for RCTV, one of the oldest and largest opposition-controlled TV stations in the country, when its 20-year term expired on May 27. The US media, in keeping with its reporting on Venezuela for the last 8 years, has seized upon this opportunity to portray this as an assault on "freedom of the press. "