CUBAN COMMENTARY SUPPORTS VENEZUELA'S RCTV CLOSURE

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May 31, 2007 Thursday

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HEADLINE: CUBAN COMMENTARY SUPPORTS VENEZUELA'S RCTV CLOSURE

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Text of report by Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde website on 29 May

[Commentary by Rosa Miriam Elizalde: "TVes as It Is.]

The big change took place at 2359 on Sunday 27 May. RCTV broadcast  
the Venezuelan National Anthem, sung by faces as pale as could be  
found anywhere but this country, a telluric compendium of the  
Americas, as [Cuban novelist] Alejo Carpentier called it. A second  
later, the Venezuelan Social Television (TVes) signal appeared on the  
screen. From the street one could hear a guaracha recalling "that  
everything must end;" fireworks could be seen above Avila.

Venezuela has suffered from a sort of schizophrenia over the last few