The Venezuelan crisis seen on television - Terra.com

Venezuela

hyperpolarized In these days, the post-election fight goes for trying to impose their own version of reality. And the natural arena for this dispute is in the media.

tension in the country after Henrique Capriles demanded an audit of the results to recognize the victory of Nicolas Maduro in the April 14 presidential has its most tense scene on television.

state channel Venezolana de Television (VTV), the opposition is portrayed as violent coup as the government calls for peace. In contrast, in the private network Globovision, you hear that the opposition calls for peace as the government, which the opposition accused of “stealing the election” seeks violence.

advertising spaces heighten the controversy with “commercial”, with stunning mounts offer a terrifying portrait of the counterparty.

Two Worlds

official media defends the National Electoral Council and the legitimacy of Nicolas Maduro and the bombing Capriles is constant. He is accused of coup and especially of the nine deaths, now according to the Attorney General, took place in the context of protests the day after the election.

sociologist and media analyst Maryclen Stelling “is not the tension rose to the media, but the media are part of the tension, the outlines and feed”.

“There is a perverse game because the entire media spectrum are at the service of political interests in two projects that confront country. In Venezuela, the projects are not confronted since the parties but from the media,” said Stelling the BBC.

While that debate is staged on television, the government majority in the National Assembly, a commission of inquiry into the events that began its work also accusing the opposition of the alleged burning of health centers staffed by Cuban doctors in areas humble.

Globovision and other media related to the opposition, especially the daily paper, investigations are denying the government’s allegations and showing photos with these medical centers intact.

also many reports of layoffs of public officials who voted for Capriles, or some kind of witch hunt in search of pictures of Miranda Governor phones and social networking profiles.

No matter how many times you refute, whatever contrary evidence showing each other, the bombardment continues. Not surprisingly, according Stelling, Venezuelans tend to consult only similar ideological means.

“So pleased you wake up where you are and where you are sleeping satisfied because everything that you consult reinforces the truth we want to believe,” he said.

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VTV and Globovision

But are minority channels. If we stay with what they see mostly Venezuelans, that policy would not much, most of the time they are seeing that “bad” of the telenovela is very bad, or that the FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, lately, are worse.

“The other general channels Capriles reproduce what he says but in the eleven o’clock news the night. This has no direct impact on political action. Yeah it has the live broadcast of the press conference,” he told Andres Canizales BBC researcher at the Catholic University Andrés Bello (UCAB).

At that, the opposition does not have much to do, but the government has a sort of ace in the hole: mandatory chain broadcasting does not hesitate to use at their discretion.

In these days of uncertainty, the only certainty is mandatory chain of radio and television every day. And stings more than any other. For example, on Wednesday of last week for the second time in the last two weeks, Capriles was interrupted by one of them.

That time just

while denouncing the use of chains to diffuse mounting accusing him of deaths in protests on 15 April. His speech was interrupted by a string with the same piece complained of.

“Fear”

“It’s the fear that I talk to every Venezuelan, every Venezuelan, about their rights, defend and fight for their rights,” said Capriles, whose intervention was only broadcast live on Globovision.

Last Thursday, Capriles had to wait fifty minuntos to finish another Maduro chain that began just as he was being interviewed on the same television.

Cañizales believes that “the possibility for making chains Maduro even interrupting the press conference Capriles in media terms makes the situation is quite unequal.”

According Maryclen

Stelling, sociologist and media analyst, it is true that “in view of the results are not accepted, the strings have a highly political content, confrontation and delegitimization of the adversary.”

“But it must be understood in context: Maduro did not have enough time to present the benefits of their management and got half the country against” Stelling told the BBC.

The context is precisely the concern: the post-electoral tension never quite dissipated and the media do not seem to be helping to reduce it.

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