Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think every country has human rights problems.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Even Canada has human rights problems.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think there are. There are definitely human rights concerns, but you have to look at Venezuela in the entire regional context. When you compare Venezuela and the vast improvements since the election of the Chávez government relative to the previous governments, which killed 3,000 people at Caracazo, where in the barrios people were afraid of the police or anything like this, there have been significant improvements.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My understanding was it was through RCTV, wasn't it?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  And that was rebroadcast by CNN and then the U.S. State Department. This was used as a justification for the coup of 2002, that the Chávez supporters were firing on unarmed demonstrators. The military moved in to bring order to the situation, apparently, and then the U.S. State Department recognized that coup regime, but it was overturned by the people two days later.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think Camilo and I can answer this one. In terms of the Venezuelan media, I personally got involved in the Venezuela solidarity movement after the coup in 2001, and I don't know if people remember from the time. If you watched CNN, there was this classic picture of Chávez supporters supposedly firing on an unarmed demonstration.