Fernando del Rincón and Óscar Pérez

By: Luisana Colomine | |

Two stars, one the same show: One of them, a journalist. It'd be better to say, someone from the CNN show business. The other, a cop: A character from the most radical Venezuelan oppositionism, self defined as “a Nationalist”. Both of them, after the same aim: Sacking President Nicolás Maduro. Their weapons? The one uses his ideological missiles: Propaganda armor. The other, “Noisy grenades”, “Heroic” and “Outrageous” actions. Regarding the semiotics of the image, there is something here stuffed with meaning: Both guys fill the standards of the Hollywood entertainment industry. They're both attractive men. Both, blue-eyed. Both, with a sharpened and full a fiery enraged speech. Both, “Influencers” of the social networking system. The “Conclu” night, they served the bouffet for the subsequent actions that came later. Although then, none of them imagined the final outcome.

The CNN journalist, Fernando del Rincon, in year 2017 devoted himself, according to the author's research, at least three of his five weekly TV programs to the “Crisis in Venezuela”, with negative contents on our country. At least 98%  of his spopemen belonged to the MUD (the opposition to Maduro's government). That says a lot of their “imparciality”. In year 2013, President Chávez's disease was the recurrent topic. This allowed the assurance of a captive audience in the “mayamera” and "criolla" Venezuelan opposition. In 2017, he offered himself to the service of the “Guarimbas” (Barricades). Therefore, it was not odd having him interviewed Óscar Pérez by the end of the second week of this barely starting new year, 2018.

We witnessed the “Show” on @Twitter. We were surprised by the tone the journalist used before an Óscar Pérez and two people of his “team” (who did not talk among each other) without any malice to answer to the questionnaire. Pérez, with a plain and inconsistent speech, proved to be more a pragmatic rather than a polititian. Del Rincón was astonishingly harsh to the ex CICPC officer. When Pérez detached himself from the MUD leaders, by having accused them of having sold their consciousnesses, the other reacted with rage, as if he also belonged to that organization. He said the people didn't trust him, because with all the things he had done, he was still free. He even also persuaded that all of that had belonged to a plan by the Venezuelan government to discredit,  even more, the “already decaying MUD”. The “Conclu” host interrupted continuously the interviewed. He also didn't let him finish his phrases. Phrases, Pérez always used to begin with “First and foremost”.

Now, after the events in El Junquito, Del Rincón continues the show. He spreads the 15 videos that according to the journalist Francisco Urreiztieta (from Univisión), Pérez recorded in a dreadful chronicle of his own death. Del Rincón becomes himself the echo of the world media domination and he says, “Óscar Pérez was executed by Maduro's government”, when the only one “executed” here has been the truth. A truth we all expect to know in depth...

English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine

Email: acerocolomine@gmail.com

Twitter: @andesenfrungen

Read the Article in Spanish, here: https://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/a258173.html