Venezuela censores broadcast of "La reina del sur"
The Telecomunications National Commission of Venezuela has asked to Directv lays off the promotion and broadcast of the TV serie "La reina del sur", show that today would be premiered in one of the channels offered in Directv.
The director of the Commission, William Castillo, ensured in a letter to Directv that the TV serie is a "narconovela", namely, a TV show that promote the antivalors and the lifestyle of the narco. That is against the third article of the Law of Responsability in Radio, TV and Electronic Media.
The Venezuelan law sets that the TV has the obligation to educate the people, and this isn't the first time that the Commission asked the stop of broadcast of a TV show related to the narcotraffic. But, the pirate comerce covered the demand of the people to watch that kind of shows.
La reina del sur is an adaptation to TV of the homonym Arturo Pérez Reverte's novel that tells the story of Teresa Mendoza, a mexican woman that escapes of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, after the murder of her boyfriend, a narco. The production fo the serie has locations in Mexico, United States, Spain, Colombia and Moroco.
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