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Likewise, the State, through control of the telecommunications infrastructure, advanced with site blockades or service outages at politically sensitive moments . All these repressive actions are framed by the government in a rhetoric that presents them mobile phone number list as necessary measures to combat the death rattles of the counterrevolution. In this sense, in 2019, Maduro boastedthat "only the rubble of the bourgeois media remains". The press as polarized political opposition In the previously outlined narrative that privileges the mobile phone number list enumeration of restrictive facts of free expression, the conflict tends to be read as the manifestation of Chavista authoritarianism.
The idea of an authoritarian nature and drift inherent in populism is usually implicit in it. Certain normative visions and an ahistorical view of press mobile phone number list freedom also tend to operate in the narrative that reduce the activity of the journalistic press to the control of political power from and for society. Putting the narrative of the populist "aberration" into perspective does not mean ignoring the authoritarian tendencies, the silencing, the censorship, the arrests, and the arbitrariness mentioned above.
It does not mean, in particular, to ignore that mobile phone number list –beyond the expression of a popular subject to which Chavismo gave rise– the resulting regimentation and control from above have had very little to do with the democratization of the Venezuelan media sphere contained as promise in the chavista discourse. This does not mean that there may have been specific instances of expansion of voices and perspectives hand in hand with media policy.