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The Red Defense Constitution expresses its strongest protest against the measures taken by CONATEL against civil organizations CEDICE Asoesfuerzo and who have been spreading in various radio and television stations, a advertising campaign called " In Defense of the Right to Private Property " showing some evidence and criteria that seek to highlight and protect certain attributes of the right private property, as well as any public policy question that can ignore this right.

Following the disclosure of these ads, CONATEL has initiated a punitive procedure against these organizations and the media that broadcast, claiming that they could be inciting to crime, public order disturbances and be attacking security the nation. The procedure not only aims to impose meaningful sanctions, but also seeks to silence legitimate messages, peaceful and necessary in a democratic and pluralistic society, to the extent that the only initiation, issued CONATEL a precautionary measure arbitrary and without justification, through which imposes prior censorship by prohibiting the disclosure of such advertising, and any other similar, while a proceeding is pending.

CONATEL

These measures constitute a flagrant violation of the right to freedom of expression and information enshrined in Articles 57 and 58 the Constitution and Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits specifically the establishment of censorship, why can not prohibit the broadcast of a message, but there is a final decision. At the same time, with this arbitrary measure will not only prevent these organizations to spread their ideas, but also deprives the Venezuelan society to receive and weigh these messages, which in any way incite violence or public disorder. This prevents that is the very society that is convinced, without government interference, the benefits or harm of certain public policies.

Also, this measure prior censorship threatens the very essence of a democratic society, because it imposes the need to tolerate a diversity of ideas and dissenting opinions, especially when they are justified and framed in explicitly recognized norms and values by the Constitution. For It is therefore logical and appropriate that there is scope to open a broad debate on issues of public interest, which excludes the possibility of banning the dissemination of ideas that are uncomfortable and even offensive to the government.

The inaccuracies or exaggerations that the government attributes to the messages that have been spreading these civil society organizations must be fought with ideas, not with clamps or procedures to inhibit public debate. Silence an opinion in an unreal and nonexistent danger of disorderly conduct is an intolerable restriction on the free expression of thought, menos en una sociedad democrática.

Además, es claro que el solo inicio de estos procedimientos genera un efecto inhibitorio en el resto de la sociedad, lo que se traduce en una autocensura, pues es lógico pensar que muchas personas u organizaciones se verán cohibidas de expresar sus ideas y opiniones, frente a la posibilidad de ser sancionados o perseguidos por entes gubernamentales.

Hacemos un llamado a las autoridades y tribunales competentes, a los fines de que den preferencia a los valores constitucionales que promueve el derecho a la libertad de expresión, y en consecuencia se deje sin efecto cualquier mecanismo directo o indirecto de censura previa, que pretenda inhibir el libre debate de ideas.

Rafael Chavero

Professor

UCAB

Jesús María Casal

Dean, Faculty of Law UCAB

Jose Roman Duque Corredor

President Academy of Political and Social Sciences

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Curiepe and defend the Constitution

"is that we wanted to take away our rights celebrate religious festival of our Patron, our tradition of drums and take away police to protect us, without even asking. This is an abuse . "

how are you phrases collected independent media social events in Curiepe when Guard National sought leave to Miranda State Police facilities have always busy, and the inhabitants of this population expressed to Mirandinos justify his public protest against what they considered an affront to rights citizens and neighbors, and an excessive use of force military.

You can not miss this done. Indeed, it spontaneous protest, and his character clearly equally popular and its rationale: defending a rights understood as inalienable, as defense was invoked as a justification for protest. addition of the values \u200b\u200b are involved in human rights. is to say, cultural freedom and religious and citizens' rights decide about protection and personal safety. And undoubtedly the defense against what is considered as an arbitrary by the injury to those rights and values. All this in a region described as "Afro Venezuelan" where popular origin is indisputable and where the feeling of freedom historically has always been present . Curiepe marked a historic event to an example of a community united in defending their fundamental rights.

was the community which reacted because an event whose consequences they foresaw who arranged the evacuation the state police forces. Indeed, first, there was a collective sense that this impersonation perceived as arbitrary against the same community and not as a political conflict between state and national authorities. Rather than defending a Governor to whom you are severing its powers there was a reaction to what the community judged as eliminating a police which was consubstantial and a lack of respect for religious tradition and cultural, when chosen for eviction day of their patron saint and folk festivals, which altered the life of society. Second, that sentiment resulted in a spontaneous and unplanned protest as a defense of the same community has called of abuse of power. is to say, the imposition of a measure of elimination of a public service, without being consulted. In other words, the defense its right to participate and intervene in decisions directly affecting a the members of the community. And thirdly, popular sentiment that more meaning than a protest against an abusive use of force armed what was at stake were their individual and collective rights that nobody can ignore them or take away.

In this vein defense of constitutional rights, safeguard the constitutional principle is that public safety in times of peace, is an activity character civilian, not military; as follows from Article 332 of the Constitution , as the replacement of police state and municipal National Guard, which is a component of the National Armed Forces, contradicts the principle of security private citizen because it confuses this security with national defense, which is a military principle. Safety first this citizen was ratified by the people in the referendum of December 2007, when he rejected the reform Articles 328 and 329 of the Constitution that intended to militarize public safety , Assigning the function itself of the Force Army National civilian police activity.

Román J. Duque Corredor

President Academy of Political and Social Sciences