Venezuela Protests 2014: President Nicolas Maduro Says Citizens Should 'Leave' If They Don't Like It

Reports have emerged that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is threatening to block CNN's broadcast for portraying Venezuela as a country in the midst of civil war. However, President Maduro is doing a fairly good job of generating his own negative publicity. On Wednesday night, during a nationally televised broadcast, Maduro described bullet wounds sustained by government forces during protests and said "You think this is a novel? This is the reality that you with your hatred have created," he said. "If you don't like Venezuela, leave."

Meanwhile, at a press conference on Thursday night, President Maduro theatened to bann CNN from the country: “All 24 hours their programming is about war. They want to show the world that there is a civil war in Venezuela, when the people here are working, studying and helping their country. I already told secretary Delcy Rodríguez to notify CNN that the administrative process to remove them from Venezuela has started if they don’t rectify. CNN is gone if they don’t rectify.”

Alejandro Camacho Beomont explaiend the situation to CNN's iReport"Even though I am always looking for peace to make a better place to live, I think people have the right to express themselves in the ways they can, and it is not easy to express yourself in this country now," he said. "I support the protesters. There have been more than 15 years that the majority of the Venezuelan citizens are going through tough times. There are so many problems we have to face every day, and there seems to be not a sincere attitude from the high government officials to rectify (them)."