They warn media “coup” against progressive governments

Fernando Camacho Servin

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday November 26, 2022, p. eleven

In several countries, but especially in Latin America, many media outlets participate in operations to disinform about a large number of issues, with the aim of discrediting progressive governments, within the framework of a scheme of modern coup who knowingly spreads lies, warned journalist Inna Afinogenova.

These media claim to have an alleged informative plurality and even a line from leftbut in fact they have legitimized and justified attacks against the authorities of Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, among other countries, he said.

Yesterday, when giving a master lecture at the UNAM, in the international colloquium Media wars in Latin America: actors, interests and alternatives, the Russian communicator indicated that one of the recent examples is the so-called Ferrerasgate.

The case, he explained, refers to the recordings released by the Spanish media Free Chronicle, in which the presenter Antonio García Ferreras, director of the television channel The sixth, admitted having released a note about Pablo Iglesias, leader of the left-wing Podemos party, knowing it was false.

In that conversation -in which the president of the daily The reason, Mauricio Casals– García Ferreras is heard saying that the accusation against Iglesias of having received more than 200,000 dollars from the Venezuelan government is “too crude, but in any case ‘I’m going with it’ to spread it.”

Lula, Kirchner and Chávez

Afinogenova stressed that this type of falsehoods have been publicized on many occasions against Lula da Silva, Hugo Chávez and Cristina Fernández, among other characters, to erode them and subvert popular governments with lies, knowing that they are lies and using them as weapons. These are the keys to a modern coup that Latin America knows very well..

He emphasized that the large media conglomerates in the region and in Spain belong to a few families, linked to interests in other business activities; participate in alliances neoconservatives and anti-communists that call to stop the advance of the governments and parties of the left.