Many Venezuelans miss Leto’s solidarity call as Oscars ceremony not shown on broadcast TV

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Jared Leto accepts the award for best actor in a supporting role for “Dallas Buyers Club” during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

CARACAS, Venezuela – Roughly half of Venezuela’s TV audience was not able to watch supporting actor winner Jared Leto express solidarity with all the “dreamers” in Ukraine and Venezuela as he accepted his Oscar.

That’s because the private channel Venevision, for the first time in several decades of carrying the Academy Awards, did not broadcast the show Sunday night.

It was carried on cable television by the TNT network, but many Venezuelans can’t afford cable.

Venevision announced via Twitter earlier Sunday that it did not have the rights to broadcast this year’s Oscars. It offered no additional explanation.

Some Venezuelans mounted a campaign on Twitter urging participants in the Oscar ceremony to speak out in support of anti-government demonstrators.

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