* Jorge Rodríguez, a director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and president of the National Electoral Board (JNE), sent a letter to the Venezuelan media asking them not to broadcast an audiovisual documentary called "What revolution?", claiming it "violates the Rules governing advertising and propaganda during the elections to revoke popularly elected officials."

* Oscar Lucien, one of the producers of the documentary, described Rodríguez' move as arbitrary. "In no way this documentary encourages Venezuelans to vote for or against (President Hugo Chávez). If they are going to prohibit it, such a decision should be based on a different regulation, on a regulation concerning information and opinion." Lucien claimed the TV documentary is a work collecting historic facts and is a source of material for political debate.

* Alberto Federico Ravell, director of local news TV network Globovisión, on Thursday said he would do anything to have the documentary film "What revolution?" aired.

* In an interview with a radio station, Ravell said he spoke to CNE's Rodríguez and told him he could not censor the documentary, as it does not infringe any regulation on electoral advertising and propaganda.

* According to Ravell, the top electoral body has no right to veto any feature in particular, but only to monitor electoral advertising spots related to a presidential recall vote. "You may be certain that this video is going to be broadcast on TV," he stressed.

* CNE's Rodríguez on Thursday described as a "friendly request" a letter he sent on Wednesday to the media demanding not to broadcast the documentary "What revolution?"

* The official refused claims that the move amounted to CNE trying to impose previous censorship. He explained that CNE is simply waiting for its legal advisors to review the video and determine whether it complied with regulations on electoral propaganda vis-à-vis a presidential recall vote to be held on August 15.

* Venezuelan Vice President José Vicente Rangel on Thursday claimed that a move of the CNE to prevent local news TV network Globovisión from broadcasting the documentary "What revolution?" is not previous censorship, as the TV station "perfectly knows it should not" transmit the video.

* According to Rangel, "an agreement and regulations" have been reached in connection with the transmission and broadcasting of messages related to the presidential recall vote.

* In this sense, he indicated: "In this moment, there are people trying to clog this (electoral) process with a series of conflicts." "In any party did something affecting the normal course of the process, such an attitude should be rejected. The CNE has adopted a stance in connection with this video that it could adopt vis-à-vis a video on President Chávez," for example, he added.

* Globovisión's Ravell on Thursday ratified that the documentary is to be broadcast "on every TV channel at different times," because, he said, "the National Electoral Council has imposed no restrictions" on the transmission of the video.

* He added that during a meeting between the representatives of the Carter Center and the Media-Monitoring Committee, the privately owned TV networks were asked not to divide the video into separate advertising spots for in that case the CNE could take punitive measures.

* "The electoral body must not and cannot intervene -and it is not intervening- in the transmission of any kind of program or material that is to be aired and that is not strictly related to the revoking referendum," Ravell said.