3 transmit, jointly and without any time limit, all the official speeches or messages that the National Executive Branch (the President of the Republic, the Vice President, and Ministers) consider it opportune to address to the population. […] This constant interruption of the regular programming of the audio-visual media by the Government has unquestionably become a threat to freedom of expression”; (c) “The imposing of Government propaganda by the Venezuelan State in violation of article 10 of the Radio and Television Social Responsibility Act.” They indicated that this article establishes that “it is not permitted to use these spaces to broadcast the publicity or propaganda of State organs and entities”; despite this, the State has been failing to observe this provision, obliging Globovisión to transmit messages that are clearly official publicity; (d) “The indirect pressure and censure exercised by the Venezuelan State by not offering Globovisión contracts for official publicity.” They stated that situations such as those described have been recognized by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights as indirect pressure on the exercise of freedom of expression; and (e) “The indirect pressure exercised by the State by failing to grant the concessions and permits requested by Globovisión to expand its coverage.” In this regard, they reported that CONATEL has delayed issuing any decision on such requests without any justification, even though Globovisión has presented all the necessary supporting documents.” In this brief, the representatives asked the Court, inter alia, to reiterate to the State the provisional measures that had been ratified, and to order the State to adopt the following provisional measures: […] 9. To require the State to abstain from addressing verbal attacks and other confrontational expressions, through its senior officials, against the media, their journalists, employees and management and, in particular, against Globovisión, in order to avoid the acts of intimidation and physical attacks against the petitioners resulting from this incitement. 10. To require the State to avoid the abusive and unnecessary use of the mechanisms for broadcasting official messages through the national radio and television network, to prevent this mechanism becoming a means of censuring the media. 11. To require the Venezuelan State to abstain from carrying out discriminatory practices designed to obstruct the access of the private media and, particularly, Globovisión, to news from official sources. 9. The note of the Secretariat of October 30, 2007, in which, on the instructions of the President, it granted the parties until November 14, 2007, to forward any observations they deemed pertinent on the brief of the representatives (supra Having seen paragraph 8), “in particular, concerning the request for expansion of the measures.” 10. The brief of November 14, 2007, in which the Inter-American Commission, in response to the request made in the note of the Secretariat of October 30, 2007, forwarded its observations on the request for the expansion of the measures submitted by the representatives. The Commission stated, inter alia, that “most of the measures requested by the representatives of the beneficiaries in its request for their expansion related to the State’s obligation to safeguard and protect the life, personal integrity and freedom of expression of the beneficiaries, and that, based on its content, it constitutes a reiteration of the measures that the Court has already ordered and that are still in force.”