 Mr. Maduro also said that the BBC "has become the biggest propaganda apparatus for the military intervention" in Venezuela.According to the National Union of Workers of the Press, three television channels were removed in the months up to August 2017.Canal 24 Horas, a news channel owned by Chile's public broadcaster, Televisión Nacional, was removed from Venezuela's cable and satellite television operators by the state-run National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) on 24 January, during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.