The United States Department of State, in conjunction with sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, pressured the DirecTV company to cease operations in our country, with the purpose of creating unrest and anxiety in the population, as revealed the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab.
He indicated that this decision is in addition to other coercive and unilateral measures by the United States against Venezuela, among which are sanctions to prevent the purchase of food, medicine and fuel.
«The objective of these measures is to make the Venezuelan people suffer, to generate destabilization and justify any action against the Venezuelan authorities», said the attorney general, while specifying that the US government put pressure on AT&T, the company that owns DirecTV, «To challenge the national government and to break the country’s telecommunications regulations».
At a press conference broadcast by VTV, he added that «the decision of a foreign government to prevent the broadcasting of two Venezuelan channels, one state-owned and the other private, is what forced DirecTV to cease its operations in Venezuela, since that decision impeded DirecTV to comply with Venezuelan regulations».
