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From RSF:

Reporters Without Borders today condemned as an act of political revenge the cancellation of a television station’s licence, seven months after the same action was taken against radio La Voz de Bagua Grande, also in the Amazonas region.

Televisión Oriente, based in Yurimaguas in the north-east, lost its broadcast licence on 15 January on the order of the Transport and Communications Ministry (MTC). Like La Voz de Bagua, Televisión Oriente fulfilled all the legal conditions for its licence, granted in 2006. And in both cases the authorities claimed that they had not met deadlines for operational checks. This reason is obviously not valid.

Rather than loudly proclaim his acts of censorship like certain other presidents in the region, Peruvian President Garcia silently has his bureaucracy shut down media outlets. It's censorship all the same. The OAS should be working just as hard on this case as they are on cases of censorship in Venezuela and Honduras.