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Maegan told you earlier this morning about Hugo Chavez‘s landslide presidential win in Venezuela. According to AP, U.S. Spanish-language network Telemundo also wanted to tell you about it, but didn’t manage to, since they were apparently “forced” off the air during the in situ coverage of the elections in Caracas:

Officials identifying themselves as members of a state regulatory agency forced the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo to halt transmission Sunday of its presidential election coverage.

“We’re surprised by this,” said Pablo Iacub, a member of Telemundo’s eight-person team, which arrived last week. “We only want to do our work,” he said by telephone.

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