Cabello: The Revolution ended the media supremacy that existed in the Fourth Republic

Published at: 23/10/2024 08:50 PM

During his 500th edition of the Con El Mazo Dando program, Diosdado Cabello Rondón emphasized that during the Fourth Republic, “terrible media supremacy existed in Venezuela, that is, a hegemony.”

In this regard, he stressed that at that time in the country “nothing was moving that television channels or newspaper owners did not authorize.”

“Here the television channels censored a President of the Republic and Luis Herrera never appeared again,” he recalled, while questioning Herrera's passivity.

“I don't know if I was President, because a television channel that he manages and has a frequency that belongs to the State and tells him that, the least he should do is close it,” he said.

He recalled that “these were the times of blackmail, because they knew things between them, secrets”.

“The newspapers had deputies in the National Assembly, for example, Miguel Enrique Otero, from where he was going to be a deputy for nothing, a really gray guy, without any talent, besides, who is the son of a great revolutionary. Nothing else,” he said.

He also mentioned the case of Henrique Capriles who “was a deputy for a media quota and was named as a candidate for Zulia, he had never visited the state of Zulia in his life”.

He also stressed that “the media here were very powerful, and that's what we faced in 2002, when they broke the television screen on April 11 and they, the owners of the media, actively directed the coup d'etat.”

“The owners of the media called themselves in the fourth Republic, the fourth power and exercised it. Then things started to change, with the arrival of networks,” he said.

Mazo News Team