Venezuelan Congress Approves Chavez’s Internet, Telecoms Laws

Venezuela’s congress approved separate laws last night regulating the internet and telecommunications as part of a set of new rules opponents have called undemocratic.

Congress approved the internet bill, article 28 of which prohibits television, radio or internet messages that “incite, promote or justify crime, the equivalent of war propaganda, fomenting anxiety among the citizenry or that alter the public order,” according to a statement published on the National Assembly website.