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Venezuela Fines TV Station For Prison Coverage

Associated Press | by Fabiola Sanchez

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan regulators fined a TV channel more than $2 million on Tuesday for its coverage of a deadly prison riot that became a political headache for President Hugo Chavez. The hefty fine against Globovision sharply raises the stakes in an intermittent conflict between the government and the country’s only remaining channel […]