(en) El Libertario will continue to resist the hegemony of communication of the Venezuelan state

Due to the dollarization of the Venezuelan economy, the control of the rate of exchange 
by the Nicolas Maduro? government and the importation of 100% of the resources for the 
graphic arts industry, since the end of 2013 the country?s printing presses - including 
the one we have worked with for the past 6 years- are suffering the lack of prime 
materials, particularly paper. That is forcing many printers in the country to shrink 
their editions and others to limit themselves to digital format, particularly impacting 
independent media such as ours. ---- This situation is not only the consequence of erratic 
economic decisions and the deepening of the extractive and clientele economy in Venezuela, 
but is also an opportunity for the government to exert political control over non-state 
sectors.

As has happened with the TV spectrum, access to
dollars and permits for importing supplies are being used by the
?Madurista? government in power to silence any type of dissidence and to
render as invisible as possible its excesses and contradictions.

Our printer is making all possible efforts to obtain paper for our next
issue, number 72, which should be in the streets at the beginning of March
2014.

Only if this situation persists would we publish the issue in a purely
digital format via the social networks, hoping to return to hard copy in
the shortest time possible, which for our collective is fundamental to the
work of spreading autonomous struggle and the sowing of libertarian ideals
in Venezuela. For 19 years we have functioned in a self-managed and
independent fashion, and we will continue to do so, denouncing the
arbitrariness of power and putting ourselves on the side of the victims of
any oppressor of any ideology. We invite our friends and readers to take
part in our experience any way, be that spreading the knowledge of the
existence of El Libertario, creating or recasting content, as a way to
continue growing the antiauthoritarian network and to resist the advance
of the state?s hegemony among ourselves.

El Libertario - February 2014

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