AT&T is under pressure to defy Maduro's censors
In April, as a military uprising roiled Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government ordered pay TV providers to immediately cease transmission of CNN and the BBC.
The strategy harkens back to a Cold War playbook of leveraging information to fight anti-U.S. propaganda and undermine authoritarian rule. But instead of covertly beaming U.S. government-produced content into foreign countries as Radio Free Europe did in the former Soviet Union, this proposed effort consists of pressuring a private company to bring back access to private, international news outlets that, until recently, Venezuelans took for granted.
Planning is in the early stages, the two individuals said, and it’s just one of several options under consideration to pressure Maduro, who remains firmly in power even in the face of U.S. sanctions aimed at propping up Juan Guaido, the opposition leader recognized as Venezuela’s rightful leader by more than 50 nations.
A key to Maduro’s staying power are dozens of government-controlled newspapers, social media accounts and TV channels that have replaced the once highly confrontational private news outlets. As government censorship has intensified, pressure has been building on DirecTV, the only one operated by a U.S. company subject to U.S. sanctions.
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