Anti-Chavez All The Time

Source: Advertising Age, February 10, 2003 As the so-called general strike against Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez comes to an end, Venezuelan television will begin broadcasting advertising again. For the two months of the strike, "the only commercials on Venezuelan TV were the opposition's relentless barrage of powerful and often witty anti-Chavez spots," Advertising Age reports. Fifteen Venezuelan ad agencies worked together to make over 200 commercials, "although most shops and clients were closed until Feb. 3 in what one agency executive called a 'collective personal decision' to support the strike," Advertising Age writes.