It’s becoming increasingly frustrating to read about “independent media” in Venezuela. Those who don’t publish 8 out of every 10 articles praising the Maduro regime tend to cover the most absurd propaganda of the boliburguesía, which now controls most of the media. One expects a bit of objectivity, journalistic seriousness, and truthfulness from outlets like El Nacional or Ultimas Noticias. But no. The former is edited by Antonieta Jurado, while the latter was “acquired” not long ago by another group of thugs who hide the true owner. You can expect all sorts of nonsense from opportunists like Carlos Herrera, and the most degenerate praise of chavismo can always be read by visiting Aporrea or any other chavista “media.” I’ve been accused of everything: from Colombians with questionable ties to people close to the FARC calling me a “fugitive from justice,” to anonymous blogs and sites (likely paid for by Alex Saab) accusing me of being a “narco… manufacturer of narco-submarines,” all the way to “hitman,” a “spearhead of the CIA,” and that I have “AIDS” and am supposedly “contaminating” nonexistent people around. There’s everything in the vineyard of chavismo.
However, one finds arguments like those that appeared in 6topoder, a weekly owned by Leocenis García, who doesn’t seem to be a chavista saint and claims to be an “opposition businessman and journalist.” According to García’s publication, I am supposedly an “executor” of a supposed “paid campaign against Derwick Associates.” This campaign, 6to Poder informs, was supposedly funded by Gorrín, whom I assume refers to Raul Gorrín, the new owner of Globovisión. In other words, apart from being the “spearhead of the CIA,” it seems I am not only on the payroll of Oscar Garcia Mendoza – Jose Vicente Rangel’s dictum – but also of the most rotten boliburguesía -Leocenis García’s dictum.
Honestly, it’s annoying. These chavistas can’t think straight. They come up with nothing original, and in their intellectual precarity, they believe that accusing someone of being homosexual or HIV-positive will have any effect in a civilized country. The so-called insults they regularly throw at me reveal the absolute state of anarchy that reigns in chavismo. They can’t agree among themselves, not even in their attempts to vilify someone perceived as an enemy.
The saddest part is that these are the people who control Venezuela, politically, economically, and in the media… And this wasteland of ideas doesn’t just affect the dignified representatives of chavista lumpen like Carlos Herrera but also the crème de la crème of chavista intelligentsia, such as Jose Vicente Rangel, the elite of boliburguesa “businessmen” like Derwick Associates, or Alex Saab.
When a media outlet that claims to be serious and independent publishes without question the nonsense that comes from the Derwick Associates office, no moderately intelligent and objective person can reach any conclusion other than discrediting such a media as irresponsible. This is the case with El Nacional, Ultimas Noticias; with all the media that reprinted the “award” to Derwick in Spain, without questioning who grants it and why it was supposedly “awarded”; those that reprinted the nonsense about “electric shielding in Caracas,” without understanding that all the power from the so-called plants installed by Derwick throughout Venezuela is insufficient to supply the city in case of a blackout; it seems there are no critical minds left within the journalism guild in Venezuela.
When I read today in 6to Poder that Gorrín supposedly pays me, and yesterday I read that Oscar García Mendoza and the CIA do too, I at least ask myself: how does this story add up? Right? How can someone be employed for the same purposes (supposedly discrediting Derwick Associates) by such disparate people/entities as Raul Gorrín, Oscar García Mendoza, and the CIA? Am I the only one who finds this lack of consistency interesting?