[Witness spoke in Spanish, interpreted as follows:]
Yes, the question is very relevant, because there are two kinds of repression. The first one is the one that was mentioned, monopolizing traditional media. If there's a lack of freedom within traditional media, bloggers and citizens start using the Internet more and more, and during certain years that was the space that was much more free than traditional media.
However, in the past two years there have been certain attempts to control the Internet as well. One of them is to selectively go after bloggers such as Pedro Jaimes.
I will allow my colleagues to continue speaking about that, but there's also the Constituent Assembly, which is a controversial group for the way it was established within the Government of Venezuela, which has approved a draconian law called the anti-hate law on social media. This is the first law of its kind in the hemisphere, and it establishes up to 20 years in jail for people whom the government considers as disseminating online messages of hate that are subversive. We know what this represents, such a vague and ambiguous law.
They have tried to apply this law against ordinary citizens who have simply been critical of the government. This is in addition to mechanisms that we've already mentioned, intermittent blogs on social media during days of protests.
Freedom of expression is also being limited online, which is in addition to another legislative project the government has tried to carry out with regard to cyberterrorism. It is also a project that penalizes or criminalizes freedom of expression online.