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Promotional Image class=”text”> ‘narconovela’ ‘Rosario Tijeras’ (which also had film version), which was banned in Venezuela in 2010. (FILE)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro , said Friday in Caracas that next Monday will meet with the owners of two of the main private broadcasters national television to ask to what he called “narconovelas”.

class=”quote_new”> Enough series that promote drug and weapons cult “narconovelas Enough, right?. Enough TV shows that promote drug abuse, weapons cult (…), all television stations in this country must change “and stop playing” anti-values ??of capitalism, “he said in a speech by the statewide network of stations.

Maduro said

have already confirmed their attendance at the meeting in the presidential palace of Miraflores, the station owners Televen and Venevision, Omar Camero and Gustavo Cisneros, respectively.

“I am going to suggest to them something: a TV very different,” he said without further details, after the previous day announced his intention to settle them “a partnership for life” to promote what he called “culture of peace”.

“Why novels they have to promote is the disloyalty, treason, drug trafficking, violence, gun culture, revenge?. because is what sells the most, say “had targeted the president.

Venezuela has the

highest murder rate per capita in South America according to United Nations figures, and insecurity is a major concern of the population.

According to figures released by the Government in March in Venezuela 16,072 murders were recorded in 2012, 14% more than the previous year, with an annual rate of 54 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants .

For its part, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (SVO) said last December that criminal violence in 2012 had claimed the lives of 21,692 people for a annual rate of 73 per 100,000 inhabitants.