Chilean investment firm Scale Capital SA said it reached an agreement to acquire DirecTV’s operations in Venezuela and will restore the signal as soon as Friday. The service will operate within the existing DirecTV infrastructure, be free for the first 90 days and is subject to local approval, Scale Capital said in a statement. Former DirecTV head, Alexander Elorriaga, will take over as the new company director, according to the release.By Patricia Laya and Alex Vasquez. Full Text-> Bloomberg

Caught between the Trump and Maduro regimes, DirecTV cut service in Venezuela during a pandemic, leading to protests and the arrest of three executives who now stand accused of fraud and efforts to destabilize the economy. By Karl Bode. Full Text -> Vice

Venezuelan authorities have jailed three local DirecTV executives under an arrest warrant issued after the Dallas-based company abruptly cut off services to the South American country last month, citing U.S. sanctions against the socialist government, the men’s lawyer said Friday. Full Text -> . Start Tribune

Venezuelans will always find ways to trade with anything scarce, from food to DirecTV kits, by Daisy Galaviz. Full Text -> Caracas Chronicles

Free Expression, Communicators for Peace and Democracy, “considers that the official intransigence that led to the cessation of operations of the cable television company Directv is in correspondence with the undeniable government intention, admitted and promoted for years, to establish a communicational hegemony as a sine qua non condition for perpetuation in power ”. Full Text-> Explica

AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Tuesday it was shutting its DirecTV subscription access to Venezuela due to U.S. sanctions, cutting off a key source of entertainment for millions of people stuck in their homes under a strict coronavirus quarantine. Full Text -> Reuters