Published at: 04/09/2024 10:00 PM

(THE NEW COUNTRY, AUGUST 31, 1992)

• In the company of his grandson, José Vicente Rangel showed the video of the interview with Commander Hugo Chávez, which should have been broadcast on Televen, were it not for the censorship order applied by President Pérez.
• In this regard, José Vicente reported:

1. “They prevented the interview because they are afraid of Chávez... far from keeping Chávez quiet, they gave him more relevance.”
2. “Censoring the Chávez interview is a coup against freedom of expression...”
3. “Every day the president remembers the Great Dictator more and more. This character of Charles Chaplin, a harsh caricaturization of Adolf Hitler, who shows a government with an authoritarian air, but which is nothing more than a corrupt antics, where the barraganas and the court of serviles rule in Miraflores.”
4. “The Televen cameras scroll through the description of the Yare Prison, then they reveal an artist and poet Chávez.”
5. “Then the popular poll that expresses the people's sympathy for the rebel commander comes on the screen”
6. Chávez warned that if there were no changes, society would use rebellion again.

Context:

• Seven months after 4F, the crisis worsened. Government deafness was stony. The president was holed up in his power environment. He only attended inconsequential opening events.
• The scandals and outrages followed one after the other, in a chain of presidential abuses:
  • The Turpial Case.
  • The secret game: $17 million that was taken in cash to the presidential office and disappeared.
  • The Presidential Guard shot down 3 people and injured 7 children in Paraguaipoa, Edo. Zulia.
  • A daughter of the president applied, in person, for permits for the exploitation of wild and aquatic fauna at PROFAUNA, Ministry of the Environment.
  • Cecilia Matos used a charitable foundation for the “protection of the Warao ethnic group” as a front for trafficking in gold bars. In addition, **** he personally traveled in armed forces helicopters to steal gold clandestinely in Bolivar state.
  • Meanwhile, the first lady distributed wheelchairs, alms and leftover scraps to the impoverished people.
• The Government was synonymous with administrative corruption. The looting of the national treasury was carried out with impunity in the light of feasts and banquets in luxury restaurants.

Mazo News Team