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Originally Posted by Eric5273
If you've ever been to Los Angeles, there are constantly police helicopters flying overhead patrolling. This is not a new idea. Caracas has one of the highest crime rates of any city in the world. There is a huge organized crime problem there, larger than perhaps any city in the United States.
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Helicopters flying by and blimps with cameras are two completely different things.
This ain't "Blue Thunder," after all.
It figures you'd attempt to compare it to the U.S.
How about this?
Guardian Link
Venezuelans marched Saturday amid heavy security in the opposition's largest show of support yet for a television station targeted by President Hugo Chavez, whom they accuse of suppressing freedom of speech and democratic rights.
Thousands of people turned out for the protest against Chavez's decision to remove Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, the country's oldest private TV station, from the airwaves.
Chavez and his supporters, however, say the measure is justified. They accuse RCTV and the country's opposition-aligned private media of supporting the 2002 coup against Chavez by broadcasting cartoons and movies instead of street protests that aided his return to power.
Seems justified. I hear that President Bush will shut down MSNBC next week for similar reasons.