Critics please leave -- for Friday's programme
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed to or his government.
"No foreigner can come here to attack us. Anyone who does must be removed from this country," he said during his weekly TV and radio programme.
And he's not the only leader to make such threats. Earlier in the year Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe whom he accuses of supporting the political opposition. The warning came after international criticism of the beatings inflicted on members of the opposition held in jail.
China is known for . At the start of a year a for criticising both governments. after she criticised the president's assertions that they were curing AIDS patients with herbs.
Here in the UK, columnist Carole Malone wrote this weekend
Should critics of governments or countries be expelled? Do they have to accept any kind of attacks on their values or systems? Should we be encouraging acceptance of all views and values at the expense of our own? We'll be talking about this later in the week, send us your thoughts and let us know if you'd like to take part live.
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