The Media is a “Deadly Weapon”

“We had a deadly weapon: the media. And now that I have the opportunity, let me congratulate you.”

- Vice-Admiral Victor Ramírez Pérez, Venevision, April 11, 2002, on the short-lived coup against Hugo Chavez's legitimately elected democratic government in Venezuela (Maurice Lemoine, Le Monde Diplomatique, 09/11/02).