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Venezuelan cartoonist allegedly fired for criticizing national healthcare system

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Alan Gardner September 18, 2014 1 minute 1 comment

Venezuelan editorial cartoonist Rayma Suprani has allegedly been fired for depicting former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s signature flat-lining on an electrocardiograph as a way to depict the country’s national health care system.

From the New York Times:

El Universal representatives were unavailable for comment on Thursday. One newspaper employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cartoonist was fired because her work had increasingly annoyed her bosses.

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But Suprani was scathing.

“My immediate boss called me and told me he didn’t like my caricature and I was out,” she told local radio. “We’ve become a country where if you say things, have your own criteria and try to provoke reflection, it’s not well-viewed.”