The beginning of a gagged Venezuela were its laws

Cut the head, cut the tail, cut the trunk off. Cut the head, cut the tail, cut the trunk off. Machining the knives on the wooden planks of some 200 workers, each wrapped in a black bag that acts as an apron, floods the main nave of a sardine processing plant in Guaca, a traditional fishing village in the state of Sucre, in the east of Venezuela. Fishermen dock their boats overflowing with still bright fish, which unload by buckets on the narrow …

The beginning of a muzzled Venezuela... Dictator Hugo Chávez imposed the forced closure of critical media outlets, such as RCTV, and imposed control over the content and journalists allowed to work for the channels. The government decided which programs could air and who could be interviewers, silencing critical voices and framing journalists as enemies of the #regime.