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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/chavez-pulls-offensive-soap-opera.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez pulled he soap opera Chepe Fortuna from the airwaves (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-chavez-pulls-offensive-soap-opera.jpg" alt="Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez pulled he soap opera Chepe Fortuna from the airwaves (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A Venezuelan television station has stopped airing a Colombian soap opera after government regulators demanded its removal saying the programme was offensive and denigrating to Venezuela as a country.</p>
<p>The soap opera Chepe Fortuna features an unscrupulous secretary named Venezuela who has a dog called Little Hugo, an apparent reference to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.</p>
<p>&#8220;What disrespect for Venezuela.&#8221; Mr Chavez said in a speech. &#8220;That soap is so horrible.&#8221;</p>
<p>The private TV channel Televen did not air the programme on Friday after regulators demanded the show be dropped from the line-up.</p>
<p>The character Venezuela, in contrast to her sister named Colombia, &#8220;is repeatedly characterised as associated with illegal activities, meddling and vulgarity&#8221;, Venezuela&#8217;s telecommunications regulatory agency Conatel said.</p>
<p>Mr Chavez noted the programme featured the dog named Little Hugo and said it is disrespectful to the country that the character Venezuela is portrayed as ill-mannered, overweight and &#8220;arrogant&#8221;.</p>
<p>The regulatory agency accused the soap opera of promoting &#8220;political intolerance&#8221; and notified Televen on Thursday that it should pull it off the air.</p>
<p>Televen, whose majority shareholder is Omar Camero Zamora, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The channel maintains a neutral stance toward Mr Chavez&#8217;s socialist-oriented government.</p>
<p>The channel Venevision, which is owned by Gustavo Cisneros, and Televen both once took hardline stances against Mr Chavez&#8217;s government but in recent years have curbed their criticism.</p>
<p>The government in 2007 forced another anti-Chavez channel, RCTV, to halt broadcasts. That left Globovision as the sole stridently anti-Chavez channel left on the airwaves.</p>
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