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Nature 446, 711 (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446711a; Published online 11 April 2007
Venezuelan free-speech row goes nuclear
Michael Hopkin
Freedom-of-speech groups have expressed concern at the treatment of a prominent Venezuelan physicist who has been fired as head of a government research lab after poking fun at the government over nuclear policy issues.Claudio Mendoza was stripped of his position as head of a computational-physics lab in the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) in Caracas because of comments he made in an article written to promote a science-related play.
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