Politics
Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz on Friday, July 3 said that she would seek enactment of a law to punish the crimes perpetrated by the mass media, claiming that the existing legal mechanisms provide for administrative sanctions only, as the country lacks criminal laws to punish such offenses.

Reference was made to an advertisement published on some local newspapers last week showing a pregnant woman who covers her private parts, and accompanied by a caption reading: "The Social Responsibility Law takes away what is yours... Say no to the Cuban law," the Attorney General Office said in a press release.

Ortega Díaz stressed that a team is already working to assess her proposal and the actions her office may adopt. She added that "the news media should be there for teaching, entertaining, and informing people timely, impartially and truthfully."

She added that such campaigns focusing on the children cause distress, uneasiness, fear and panic.