“The owner of Venezuela’s only television channel that remains critical of President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday, spurring concerns among rights activists of a widening government crackdown aimed at silencing critics.
Attorney General Luisa Ortega said a warrant was issued for the arrest of Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of the TV channel Globovision, for remarks that were deemed “offensive” to the president.
Zuloaga said that military intelligence agents detained him at an airport in the northwestern state of Falcon.
Ortega said prosecutors are investigating Zuloaga for statements he allegedly made during a recent Inter American Press Association meeting in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, where media executives from across the Americas criticized Chavez’s government for limiting freedom of expression.”
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It kinda scares me a bit to think I could be put in jail for this very blog.
