Marcel Granier, Director of Radio Caracas Television
Humberto Montero ( Reason) Can you imagine the MTV, Cartoon Network do emitting or TVE Internacional Chavez's speeches? If Venezuelan President applied the same yardstick to those channels that Radio Caracas Television, which is based in Miami, after Chavez withdrew in 2007 the license to broadcast open-all television channels operating cable Venezuela should include the addresses of the caudillo, or risk being expelled from airwaves.
- Who is more annoying, with Chavez or with the cable operators?
I expected. One is accustomed to act arbitrarily in this military dictatorship and abusive. Do not expect anything else that violates the law. What surprises me is that companies are no longer democratic countries intimidate and abide by a law unconstitutional, leaving their customers without a cable channel that has been paid.
- Is the only RCTV channel that broadcasts the speeches of Chavez?
"Not so. There are 140 stations that do not emit because, like RCTV, are international channels. We have drawn from our main market with an order that no one shows. I was asked the operators and not have it. They have been threatened.
- In what situation is RCTV?
-RCTV was the leader in open. In just two years we became the largest cable operator, doubling the second. So it hurts that operators arrangements have been folded. Although I make more enemies: respect for human rights and freedom of press force us as individuals and as entrepreneurs.
-Street's response to the blocking of their broadcasts has been tough. Is your only way out?
"The response has been very strong. For the closure of RCTV and the situation in Venezuela. There have been 950,000 million dollars squandered and now we are short of everything: water, electricity, food ... The pity is that they have killed two boys. They want to present it as a dead on each side, but reality is that there were two university and is responsible for maintaining order is the government.
- What options does the channel?
"We have 1,500 employees. Most in the production of Caracas. We will continue to issue: on the internet, twitter, by smoke signal or carrier pigeon (laughs). We will not be silent.
- How do you interpret the resignation of Vice President and Defense Minister Ramon Carrizales?
"There are two possibilities. The first is that he and his wife, and former environment minister, have resigned from the closure of RCTV. Second, they have done by the omnipresence of Cuban agents in the Army National Guard. Cubans and direct all state security and the military are afraid. Nobody dares to say anything.
