Communication and Journalism: A Comparative Study of Cuba-Venezuela Standards

Abstract

This investigation reviews the general regulations on freedom of expression, and within it the exercise of journalism, govern in Cuba and Venezuela. Two countries with approaches that have generated many discussions at different levels. Cuba, declared openly socialist in its political Constitution, and Venezuela that is assumed as a democratic and social State of law and justice but that, in the official narrative, raises the flag of the so-called 21st century socialism, whose flats have notoriously affected communication and citizen information. Through this qualitative, documentary and hermeneutic research we do an archiving, revision and critical analysis that goes from the constitutional norm to texts of sublegal rank. The foregoing reflects the general objective: to analyze and understand the situation of freedom of expression in both countries; Therefore, the specific objectives go through examining the normative scenario that prevails in Venezuela and Cuba and comparatively analyzing the conception of freedom of expression that both nations have.