Television is heavily censored. While protesters are being attacked by paramilitary groups and government forces, TV stations show soap operas and cartoons. Al

Television is heavily censored. While protesters are being attacked by paramilitary groups and government forces, TV stations show soap operas and cartoons. Also, the government often makes nationwide broadcasts that forces all channels to show the same pro-government content (a "cadena", which literally means "chain".) This effectively leaves the population misinformed at the most critical moments, the country only has social networks to find out about abuses from the regime. Some newspapers are still critical of the government, but I'm surprised to see many of them switch sides possibly because they've either been bought or blackmailed. You can feel self-censorship in some of them. Just like they silenced TV, they're trying to end freedom of speech in the press.