Venezuela - Access to information threatened by decree creating new intelligence agency

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders shares the concerns voiced by organizations that represent journalists and media workers about the government's 7 October decree creating a new intelligence agency called the Strategic Centre for Homeland Security and Protection, or CESPPA (See PDF, in Spanish). Decreto Cesppa The CESPPA is to replace the Centre for the Study of the National Situation (CESNA), an agency created in 2010 whose prerogatives were already a source of controversy. According to (...)

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