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The initiatives of Venezuelan journalists to circumvent censorship, in pictures

2021-05-25T23:52:13.920Z


Digital media, reporters and journalists in exile, attacked and cornered by Chavismo, seek new strategies to continue reporting


  • 1Neighbors from the Bello Campo neighborhood, in Caracas, listen to the news given by Joshua De Freitas, a member of the El Bus TV organization.

    This alternative medium, which is characterized by being 'offline', has been sustained as disinformation advances as a daily denunciation of censorship.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 2Joshua De Freitas, from El Bus TV, reads news with a microphone to the residents of the Campo Bello neighborhood.

    In the midst of the pandemic, this organization manages to bring information to eight cities in Venezuela to serve part of the bulk of the disconnected from a country where only four out of 10 people have a mobile line.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 3A neighbor holds the newspaper distributed by members of El Bus TV after giving the news in the Bello Campo neighborhood of Caracas.

    Pressures to get paper - whose import and sale are controlled by the government - have suffocated Venezuelan printed matter.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 4Pedestrians pass in front of a kiosk that used to sell newspapers and now only sells magazines in Caracas.

    According to the Press and Society Institute, this 2021 only 20 newspapers circulate in Venezuela, some only from Monday to Friday, or every other day, or when they can get fuel to make a print run and distribute it.

    There are 10 states in the country where none are circulating anymore.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 5Passengers on a bus in Caracas read the newspaper distributed by El Bus TV.

    Reporters from that organization, mostly journalism students, get on buses to narrate the news out loud - now with microphones and horns as a security measure in a pandemic - with a cardboard frame that simulates a television.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 6A passenger reads the newspaper distributed by El Bus TV on the Antímano route in Caracas.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 7Members of El Bus TV put up a poster with information after giving the news in the Bello Campo neighborhood of Caracas.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 8A journalist works while listening to television tuned to the VTV channel in the newsroom of the digital newspaper Tal Cual in Caracas.

    The precariousness in which journalism is practiced in Venezuela has united Runrunes, El Pitazo and Tal Cual to create the Alianza Rebelde Investiga (ARI).

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 9 “Collaborative alliances are one of the formulas adopted in Venezuela to overcome censorship, pool resources, pool efforts, reinforce legal, digital and even physical security and overcome the precariousness and limitations that Venezuelan journalism faces,” says Lisseth Boon, by Runrunes.

    Andrea Hernandez

  • 10Boon, in the editorial office of the Runrunes web portal in Caracas.

    The portal for which he works suffers systematic blockades by the Government, as well as Armando Info and El Pitazo, winner of an Ortega y Gasset in 2019. Andrea Hernández

Source: elparis

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