CARACAS – Telenovelas, which for years were with the oil and beauty queens the main exports of Venezuela, are now at the center of debate and face the risk of possible new regulations to the accusations made by the authorities that they would be promoting the increased violence that reigns in the South American country.
President Nicolas Maduro announced that he would meet with leaders of private broadcasters and representatives of cable companies to start a review on programming channels, which he passed “anti-values ??of the death cult of drug the cult of weapons and the cult of violence. “
Venezuela is considered one of the most violent countries in the region, witha homicide rate according to official records is 39 per 100,000, but according to independent estimates closed last year from 79 per 100,000 inhabitants.
“The President Maduro has a proposal (…) where we all commit to (…) to check the schedule to generate other content, to limit the extended hours of telenovelas, to change the program content, not only telenovelas, “said Vice President Jorge Arreaza.
“We are here with you sitting down with the best of spirits for yourself to make us the proposal and review it together to see if it actually does or does not comply with the law,” he said during the meeting Arreaza, broadcast that time on state television VTV.
Vice President proposed the possibility of peace campaigns “together or individually” with channels and programs.
Arreaza speaking on behalf of President Maduro, who on Monday attended a ceremony in the east of the country, said that this meeting will not be the “only”.
On the meeting next Monday the Minister of Communication, Delcy Rodriguez revealed that since the government will offer “a device” for parents to at some point decide what programming they see their children or not.
crime this month acquired prominence after the assassination of the popular actress and former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear, life with your partner in a vehicle on a highway in central Mexico. The daughter of actress, five years old, was injured by a bullet in the leg.
Although authorities have not provided further details of which could involve the review, industry analysts and television personalities fear that the government could have greater control over the contents of the channels that are regulated by a special law since 2004 . Current legislation places restrictions on the broadcasting of programs with sexual content and violence.
production of telenovelas, which for years was a profitable export, entered into a recession because of the economic difficulties facing the country.
During the last year the country saw only a soap opera and local channels has incurred strong “self-censorship” to avoid millions in fines imposed by the law regulating the broadcast media, the writer and writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka said.
In his annual message to Congress, on Wednesday, Maduro lashed to private channels, and criticized a local soap opera, whose name is not mentioned, which said that the star “has killed more than nine. He killed his mother up. The killed and the hero. “
AndrésCañizalez, communication researcher in the area of ??Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, expressed concern that this new government initiative can be used to open “a new front for government controls on the media expand of communication. “
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