Access to the first session of the National Assembly after its month-long recess will be even more restricted than usual: not only private media is banned from covering it, but even most state media outlets will be shut out as well.
Only the AN’s own radio and TV station will be allowed to cover this afternoon’s session.
Can we expect our parliament to rush through a new low today? Is all about the Enabling Law? Will Diosdado Cabello hold a quickie impeachment of Maduro and crown himself King of Scotland? If he does, and ANTV chooses to black it out, we’ll be none the wiser.
How hard it is for non-kool aid drinking journos to gain access to the A.N. these days? Just take a look to this video from NGO Legislative Monitor, where some of them explain what they’re up against.
UPDATE: Looks like previous plans for a “private” session are now called off. The AN Press Office has guaranteed that all private and State media will have access to today’s meeting at 2 p.m. The schedule doesn’t include the Enabling Law, but MUD deputies insist that they’re fully prepared in case the agenda is changed.
Caracas Chronicles 
“If he does, and ANTV chooses to black it out, we’ll be none the wiser.”
Another case of cable-chewing iguana’s on the loose?
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So now, instead of scrums with individual members of the National Assembly, they are given a “press room” and have to stay there watching the Official Feed? (That is well-named, by the way!) Why not just put them all underhouse arrest? They have tv at home, don’t they?
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Maybe the revolutionaries told journalists that if they reported in a fascist way they would be gassed.
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“Can we expect our parliament to rush through a new low today?”
You probably meant to say…..” a new law”, but on second thought you can leave it just as it is and it still is relevant!
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Actually, it meant a new low all along.
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What a shame that either way it makes sense!
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