Maduro hits out at TV soaps for high murder count
22 Jan 2014 6:22 AM IST
President Nicolas Maduro will urge representatives of Venezuela’s television stations on Monday to change what he calls a culture of violence glamorized by the media.
Voters routinely cite violent crime as their top concern. In the latest case to put pressure on the government, gunmen shot dead a former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband in front of their young daughter.
Maduro, who narrowly won a presidential election last April to succeed his late mentor Hugo Chavez, has accused TV stations - especially popular soap operas, or ‘telenovelas’ - of glamorizing guns, drugs and gangsters.
‘We are going to build a culture of peace,’ he said last week, summoning representatives of local terrestrial and cable channels to the Miraflores presidential palace on Monday.
Voters routinely cite violent crime as their top concern. In the latest case to put pressure on the government, gunmen shot dead a former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband in front of their young daughter.
Maduro, who narrowly won a presidential election last April to succeed his late mentor Hugo Chavez, has accused TV stations - especially popular soap operas, or ‘telenovelas’ - of glamorizing guns, drugs and gangsters.
‘We are going to build a culture of peace,’ he said last week, summoning representatives of local terrestrial and cable channels to the Miraflores presidential palace on Monday.
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