Venezuela's Chávez threatens to shut down TV station

President Hugo Chávez is threatening again to shut down Globovision, the sole television channel in Venezuela that regularly criticizes him — saying it had stirred panic for reporting an earthquake before the government announced it. The Globovision all-news station on May 4 scooped the government on the mild pre-dawn earthquake, registering 5.5 on the Richter scale, citing the United States Geological Survey Web page as its source. Chávez and other government officials also seem upset that Alberto Ravell, the Globovision general manager, chided the government for not providing any news.