I made serious research. In villages, people are involved in community councils, and they are elected to do that. They get participatory budgets similar to those who became popular in Brazil to develop their own projects in their community. As I said earlier, water projects have been developed, community media have been set up along with other community initiatives.
As concerns the shrinking of the democratic space, like I just said, community media are taking a lot of room. People are preparing and broadcasting information. It is not broadcasted by media with a closed neo-liberal ideology. So it is not something from outside the people that is being broadcasted and ingested. Is it democracy when you have somebody telling you what you should think?
In Venezuela, people are thinking, they are promoting different things and they make that known. Not a single television station was ever closed. The licence of the RCTV Internacional was suspended, because it did not abide by the law on social responsibility on the radio and television, la Ley Resorte. It is similar to our CRTC. Recently, somebody on this network said on the air that the solution for Venezuela was military and he suggested an immediate insurrection. Would that be allowed here?