"We are Journalists, NO Terrorists"

in #journalists7 years ago

Venezuelan journalists marched in rejection of the assaults on the part of the security forces during these 87 days of protest in the country.

Among cheers of "We are Journalists, NO Terrorists" Venezuelan social communicators commemorated Journalist's Day (June 27) by marching to Conatel headquarters in Caracas, demanding respect, security, a halt to censorship and better conditions for the free information.

This year the commemoration took place amidst a wave of protests to recover the constitutional thread in the South American nation after President Nicolás Maduro will make a Constitutional Coup against the National Parliament.

The National Association of Journalists and the Venezuelan National Union of Press Workers convened a mobilization from the "Alfredo Sadel" Square in Caracas to the headquarters of the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), the regulator of all the nation's media to deliver a document that demands respect and security to the press and free information.

The march was attended by civil society, Deputies of the National Assembly and different political leaders of the Venezuelan opposition who showed their rejection of the abuses of the security forces against journalists and other workers of the press while doing their work covering The demonstrations and their total support to the communicational guild of the country.

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