Freedom of the press doesn’t appear to be alive and well in Chavez’s Venezuela. In drastic moves like revoking the license of the country’s oldest television network, to more below-the-radar moves, Hugo Chavez has taken steps to control what media says about his government. Many journalists, not surprisingly, are outraged, and hundreds took to the streets of Caracas today to protest. In more than just a march, they took a document to the European Union and the Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) headquarters to

“express their concerns about freedom of the press in Venezuela and the closing of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV).”

The journalists carried what they referred to as the “longest protest banner in Latin America”, which stretched over half a mile and weighed almost 400 lbs.

Via / El Universal (Venezuela)

Image via El Impulso, by Globovision