Wanna Beat Hugo Chavez?

Douglas Barrios was a fourth-year student of economics at Metropolitan University at the time. He was 20 years old, so, like most of his classmates, he was part of the first generation of young Venezuelans to come of age under Chavez. Barrios was in sixth grade when Chavez was first elected, so he didn?t really remember what it was like to have anyone other than Hugo Chavez as president. But he does remember sitting at home on the night of May 27, 2007. In the months leading up to that day, Barrios and many of his friends in school had watched in disbelief as no one came forward to organize opposition to the president?s decree. ?When I try to explain it to people, I say it?s like they shut down NBC, ABC, and CBS at the same time,? says Barrios. And that night, precisely at midnight, RCTV went dark. The final image people saw was of the station?s journalists, news anchors, actors, and employees singing the national anthem, many of them crying, as they waved goodbye. ?You were sitting in front of your TV, probably the lights were off, and you saw this TV station go to static,? recalls Barrios. ?It just represented how choice can go away, how your options can go away, how something that?s very very established can just go to static.?

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