CARACAS, Venezuela – Telenovelas, which for years were with the oil and beauty queens the main exports of Venezuela, are now in the middle 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.
Vice President Jorge Arreaza
Monday night urged managers of private channels and cable TV companies to “check the schedule” to generate “other content”, and said it will seek “to limit the extended hours telenovelas “, which are very popular among Venezuelans.
a meeting at the government palace to the state television broadcast, said authorities Arreaza delivered to broadcasters and cable companies a number of ideas to revise the schedules, and that they expect from next week media managers submit their proposals to reach an agreement soon between the parties.
vice president considered the meeting as “a gesture of openness to the media can fulfill what is in the constitution … as to citizenship education.”
Highlighting the role of the media, Arreaza, who is married to a daughter of the late President Hugo Chavez said that television and radio “countries have managed to prepare to go to war unjustified peoples. Han raised nonexistent to be the worst enemies to justify a war, invasion, death, genocide “enemies.
Director of the regulator of telecommunications, Pedro Maldonado, told reporters that according to what the law provides for the “reformulation” of the hours of telenovelas that have some channels will seek to take eight four hours of transmission, and soap operas with 50% of domestic production is promoted.
Regarding the cable TV companies Maldonado said a technological device is created to block some spaces with violent content and protect children, and that will be left to parents unlocking programs.
Authorities had initially announced that President Nicolas Maduro participate in the meeting, but did not report because it was not present on the spot. Maduro has accused channels broadcasting “anti-values ??of death, drug cult, the cult of weapons, the cult of violence.”
Venezuela is considered one of the most violent countries in the region, with a homicide rate that according to official records is 39 per 100,000, but according to independent estimates closed last year from 79 per 100,000 inhabitants .
crime jumped this month to the headlines 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, aged five, was injured by a bullet in the leg.
Analysts and personalitiesTV sector 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, told the AP the writer and writer Alberto Barrera Tyszka.
In his annual message to Congress, on Wednesday, Maduro lashed to private channels, and particularly criticized a local soap opera, whose name is not mentioned, which said that the star “has missed the peak ( killed) more than nine. Was killed to his mother. killed her and the hero. “
In response, one of the actresses in the local soap opera “De Rosa all ways,” Norkys Batista, said on his Twitter account that his character Andreina Vallejo, referred to by the governor, is a psychopath, but said is just a character. The soap opera is broadcast at night by Venevision channel.
Not the first time Maduro criticized telenovelas. Last August, the president announced that the government would produce soap operas to face the “anti-values” of transmitting local media, many of which are of Colombian and Mexican bill.
Maduro, like its predecessor Hugo Chavez has questioned U.S. productions as “Spider-Man” and has said that the film is a “factory antivalues” that encourages violence among children.
Barrera Tyszka considered “ridiculous” that the government accountable the problem of violence “within an hour or two in the evening soap opera,” and said that “generates more violence the number of illegal weapons in the country that recognized by the government are between 9 and 15 million. “
The writer stated that the Venezuelan telenovela of recent years has been subject to a “self-censorship” by local regulations that exist to the broadcast media, and is “much less violent than it could be another type of telenovela”.
“No weapons appear almost in the Venezuelan telenovela. There are a number of things that are not done for fear of being fined,” he added.
Andrés
Cañizalez, 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 content are extended in the media. “
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