The official reaction of Venezuela, Argentina, Ecua-dor and several other Latin American countries to the Islamic radicals terrorist attack against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo was not only weak, but shameful; they condemned the bloodshed but not its intention to silence the press.
Hours after the Janusry 7 attack on the satirical magazine that left 12 dead, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a statement saying that he “strongly condemns the terrorist attack.” Likewise, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa issued statements condemning the kill-ings, but without denouncing them as an attack on freedom of expression.
“It was a lukewarm response,” former Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo told me in a telephone interview, referring to
