Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stressed this Tuesday that the great goal of the popular forces of current communication is to break the hegemony of history and the lie of the West in the face of the emergence of a multipolar and multicentric world.
During the International Summit Against Fascism in Defense of the Truth, President Nicolás Maduro affirmed that another world exists in the depths of peoples’ consciences.
“We must be the standard-bearers of public freedoms, true democracy, freedom of expression and freedom of information,” the Venezuelan head of state demanded.
Likewise, Nicolás Maduro recalled that during the April 2002 coup d’état, an information blockade was imposed, the media were shut down and a media dictatorship was established.
In this sense, the leadership of the Fedecamara business association and the private media, in complicity with sections of the opposition and the church hierarchy, have conspired with elements of the military high command to make the oligarch Pedro Carmona de facto president.
Thus, the montage designed to blame Commander Hugo Chávez for a 2002 massacre, historically known as the Puente Llaguno events, was orchestrated by the media.
It should be noted that national media such as Venezolana de Televisión were shut down during the coup to prevent the reality of events from being communicated to the world; while opposition forces broadcast events such as the Cuban embassy siege, a fascist act by the stateless right.
“In contrast, with the exhaustion of the Puntofijist, oligarchic, elitist model of democracy, the concept of a new participatory and leadership democracy began to form from the depths of the Venezuelan social process,” said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
According to the President, the people became protagonists and managed to appropriate human communication across the media domain, provoking the largest civil-military uprising in the history of the Venezuelan people, the April Revolution.