Censorship in Venezuela refers to all actions which can be considered as suppression in speech in the country. More recently, Reporters Without Borders ranked Venezuela 159th out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index 2023 and classified Venezuela's freedom of information in the "very difficult situation" level.
A communication from General Director of CONATEL, William Castillo Bolle, giving the IP addresses and other information of Venezuelan Twitter users to SEBIN General Commissioner Gustavo González López.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos was detained by the Maduro administration in February 2019 after a live interview.
Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Electronic Media Law
El Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper and website. It, along with Últimas Noticias and El Universal, are the most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country. In 2010, it had an average of 83,000 papers distributed daily and 170,000 copies on weekends. It has been called Venezuela's newspaper of record.
Front page of the newspaper the day after the success of the "No" vote in the 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum.
The former El Nacional building, which was seized to compensate Diosdado Cabello following a ruling by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice
