One day after the popular convocation for the election of the National Constituent Assembly, the front pages of the two main Chilean newspapers (El Mercurio and La Tercera) opened with each image showing empty polling places, without voters, openly making invisible the participation of more than 8 million voters who attended this process; a sample of the scope of the international media campaign against Venezuela.
But this practice is not exclusive to the private press, said the Chilean senator and presidential candidate for the Pais party, Alejandro Navarro, recalling the broadcast on the television screens of the Chilean State of a report on violence in the city of Caracas, an audiovisual work supported with images of Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá.
Venezuela became a daily issue in the Chilean press, over other topics more urgent for the reality of that nation as the death of 26 thousand Chileans for lack of timely medical care in 2016, said the presidential candidate during an interview in the “Encendidos” (Turned On) program, broadcast by VTV.
For Navarro, the attack directed against the Bolivarian Revolution bears close similarities to the strategy developed in his country to overthrow Salvador Allende, although he is confident that this process will be victorious because Venezuela has a cohesive Bolivarian National Armed Forces, a conscious people and the support of international solidarity.
“They intend to make Venezuela look like a dictatorship”, denounced the candidate by the Pais party, who lived the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that left more than 2,600 missing and 20,000 tortured, detained and flagellated. “It is intended to install, in a misleading manner, the stereotype of a dictatorship, as they did in Iraq with (the issue on) weapons of mass destruction …”
