The National Council for Sovereignty and Peace, the regime’s newest entelechy, met in the José Félix Ribas Room of the Teresa Carreño to show its love for the country. The master of ceremonies was Jorge Rodríguez and the closing speech was made by deputy Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of the dictator. The special guests, journalists and media executives, also spokespersons for social movements, and even another deputy, Luis Eduardo Martínez.
The central idea of the meeting was summarized by Rodríguez in the following way: If journalists can carry out their activity freely, if any Venezuelan can study at the university, we are at peace; Therefore, the truth is with us and, as a consequence, those present were asked only one small thing: to defend the truth. Simpler, impossible.
It would be absurd to think that in such a scenario, and with such a qualified spokesperson in front of the microphone, it could be argued, for example, that if in Venezuela there are 18 journalists imprisoned, several dozen in exile, hundreds of radio media closed and a lot more, of all kinds, blocked, the National Constitution is being violated, and that that is the truth, and no other. Therefore, we would only agree to “defend the truth”, without anyone asking us to do so, of course, but out of authentic ethical and professional commitment.
To support, however, Rodríguez’s speech, now of strange meekness (“we all have the same flag,” he discovered), bosses in charge at Venevisión, Globovisión and The Universal (one for both media), FM Center and…the “doctor” Oscar Schémel, named by the master of ceremonies, without it being known in which specialty the director of the Hinterlaces firm received his doctorate. What is known about him are his accurate electoral predictions: one, unforgettable, Maduro was going to win on June 28 with close to 60% of the vote; another, still fresh, 91% of Venezuelans have an unfavorable opinion of María Corina Machado.
Schémel in his X account is more modest and only presents himself as an “expert in political communication and electoral marketing.” In Teresa Carreño’s quote she left a phrase in line with her measurements on the street: “Never before has the country been so united.” Which may actually be true: the Maduro regime has made everyone agree that it has to leave power as soon as possible.
The plenary session with the media, so battered and persecuted during that quarter of a century, is further proof of the orphanhood of the leadership in the government in the current situation, as a consequence of its international discredit for the illegitimate exercise of power, and for the military siege deployed by the United States government off the coast of Venezuela that does not stir solidarity but more anger for placing the country in such a trance.
