The Seniat ordered the closure of La Voz newspaper for eight months

The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) of Venezuela denounced this Thursday that the National Integrated Customs and Tax Administration Service (Seniat, Treasury) ordered the closure for eight months of the The Voice Newspaper, for supposedly not having the “tax billboard” updated.

«The Seniat ordered the closure of the Diario La Voz. A commission showed up at the warehouses where the newspaper is printed and closed the facilities,” the SNTP said in a publication in X.

He explained that initially the tax agency ordered the closure until Monday, October 7, but that this Thursday tax officials returned to the media headquarters. to impose the measure for eight months, until May.

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He The Voice Newspaper It is one of the few prints left in Venezuela

“With the closure of the La Voz newspaper, in addition to violating the rights to freedom of expression and access to information, 50 direct workers are left unemployed,” he added.

The SNTP remembered that the The Voice Newspaperfounded 58 years ago, It is one “of the few printed ones left in Venezuela”, which circulated in paper from Monday to Saturday, in the 21 municipalities of the Miranda state.

“We reject indirect censorship against media and journalists,” said the union organization.

On June 26, the National College of Journalists (CNP) denounced that A total of 405 media outlets have closed in Venezuela in the last two decades, as part – he maintained – of a “state policy” against “freedom of expression and the exercise of journalism.”