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Venezuelan journalists asked Chavez to "reduce to a minimum" his speeches

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Venezuelan Journalists today called the reduction of the speeches of President Hugo Chavez and denounced difficult situation facing freedom of expression in the country.

"We that strictly necessary to minimize their appearance media (communication) and on national television to cut the entire country for seven or eight hours a day, access to the normal flow of information, "said the president of the National Association of Journalists (CNP), Silvia Alegrett. Alegrett

read a statement to petitions signed by 14 member organizations of journalists, cameramen, directors of schools of social communication and students grouped in a so-called Alliance for Freedom of Expression.

In the statement, which will be sent to the President of the Republic, requested, moreover, that "is returned to state agencies the power to inform the public and facilitate to the media free access to public information "as the Constitution dictates.

members of the alliance also sought to recognize the "public service" of radio and television stations owned and which is favored from the Presidency of the Republic, a media landscape "free discussion" and democratic.

"We marched in last December against the laws that were being adopted by the National Assembly (AN) affecting freedom of the country and ask for a hearing in Parliament (for which) we have received no response," said Alegrett .

requested, moreover, "is returned to state agencies the power to inform the public and provide the media free access to public information"

In December, the outgoing National Assembly, the government majority, passed around a dozen laws, many of which were described by the Government itself as indispensable for the consolidation of call XXI century socialism advocated by Chavez.

"ask the audience to go, at the end of next March, the Human Rights Commission to raise all these points," he told Efe NPC Secretary General, Mark Ruiz, who noted that this is part a series of actions for the freedom of expression.

For Ruiz, it is important private media do not fall into self-censorship "by government pressure" and seek the search "on any platform" from which they can report the problems facing the country.

partnership representatives reported on Sunday march with the NGO World Without Gag institution that invited a great mobilization for that day in Caracas and 30 other cities in the western world. EFE