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Chavismo blow against DirecTV, leader of subscription television in Venezuela. Military forces have taken over the headquarters, offices and facilities of the television operator , belonging to the American AT&T, following the occupation order issued this morning by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).

The body of the revolution also demands that its emissions be restarted immediately, which were taken off the air this week by the company's decision in the United States to comply with the sanctions imposed by Washington and after the threats made by the revolution.

The TSJ has appointed Colonel Jorge Eliécer Márquez , Minister of the Presidency , who also chairs the Socialist Telecommunications Corporation, as the new director of the television operator, which houses hundreds of channels . Its mission seems impossible: Chavismo cannot restore a service that depends on the satellite of the US telecommunications giant. The famous Chavista expropriations have not yet reached space.

The new board imposed by the Bolivarian body has the "broadest powers of administration", both to re-establish emissions and to guarantee workers' labor rights. The 600 employees of DirecTV Venezuela received their severance on the same morning of the cessation of operations.

The Supreme Court has also banned the company managers , previously threatened, from leaving the country and has seized their property.

"The dictatorship has threatened and blackmailed DirecTV for years. Now it wants to take hostages to prevent the signal from returning, all so that you are not informed. They are not only guilty of DirecTV leaving the country, now they take away their equipment and they threaten their former workers, "accused Juan Guaidó, the president in charge. The team of the opposition leader negotiates from the first day with the operator to restore service from another country "because we must overcome censorship to fight for freedom."

AT&T decided to put an end to its broadcasts in Venezuela "in the face of the impossibility of complying with the legal requirements" of the United States and, at the same time, the demands of the Government of Nicolás Maduro, which imposes its channels on the DirecTV television grid, including Globovisión and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) are sanctioned. In addition, Caracas has blocked the broadcast of a dozen channels on DirecT V, from CNN to Colombian televisions, most of the time for spreading opposition protests.

Globovision belongs to the Chavista lawyer Raúl Gorrín, alleged figurehead of the main hierarchs of the revolution, included in the most wanted list accused of corruption and money laundering.

The people of Caracas have expressed their rejection for several nights in a row, in the form of a saucepan, in the face of the impact of the loss of the television operator that provided them with entertainment and information in the midst of the pandemic. National Chavista channels are rudimentary propaganda vehicles with very limited audiences.

"The destroyers themselves want to play at being the saviors of the people's needs. There are decrees that are only smoke and fuss," summarized the writer Leonardo Padrón.

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