Indeed, it was scrawled across the covers of independent newspapers here on Monday, which reprinted an old warning by Venezuela's founding father, Simón Bolívar: "Nothing is as dangerous as allowing the same citizen to remain in power for a long time".
Earlier this month, prosecutors launched an inquiry into a newspaper which reprinted parts of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in the wake of an attack by Islamic militants on its offices in Paris.
The Herald Sun editor later tweeted a copy of Wednesday's front page - which reprinted the cartoon along with a series of others, hitting out at the "self-appointed sensors of Mark Knight".
A flurry of exhibitions and books followed, including one called "Houses from the Sand", which reprinted on the title page a striking photograph of besuited and behatted European Jews on the beach bidding for plots on empty dunes.
Political blogs became essential reading for opposition parties; in 2005, Al Dustur, a weekly paper opposed to the regime, started a blog page, which reprinted important posts for readers without Internet access.
In 1982, the K.G.B. forged a letter to discredit her and fobbed it off on the Washington correspondent for The New Statesman, a leftist British weekly, which reprinted it.
The Israeli news website Ynet, which reprinted the photos, said the imagery had provoked an angry reaction on Drek's Facebook page.
Last month saw the release of "Aquaman: Death of a Prince" (color, 336 pages, $29.99) which reprinted several stories from the 1970s that chronicled the death of the hero's son at the hands of the villainous Black Manta.
The column, which reprinted the news release almost verbatim, ended with information on how to complain to DaimlerChrysler.
A spokesman admitted that the move in effect confirmed the authenticity of the remarks and said there were no plans to take similar action against other newspapers, including the Guardian, which reprinted them.
