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Coro (Agenzia Fides) – "Without social communications there can be no democracy which is the system which teaches us how to be free, to communicate without restrictions and be able to express our opinions and criteria on matters regarding our country ", Archbishop Roberto Lückert León of Coro (Venezuela) told the local press. The prelate is of the opinion that the government is pressing the media, not to address serious problems afflicting the country but to describe it instead as a Disneyland, says a report sent to Fides.
"We have no means of voicing our disagreement or revealing what is happening in Venezuela, which, according to the government, is a Disney country where everything is fine" said the Archbishop.
"According to government spokesmen, our country has no shortages, no unemployment, no insecurity. Where these things must be said, this is the job of the media, which must be the sensitive skin of society, communicating situations as they are, denouncing not just for the sake of reporting but in order to produce solutions ", he concluded.
(CE) (Agenzia Fides, 12/08/2015)
