Enrique Chavez announced on Tuesday his untimely dismissal from TV Peru. During the broadcast of his program Face to face, the journalist stated: “Plurality has been my humble contribution.” However, he indicated that “it does not seem to be the flag” in the Government of Pedro Castillo.
In dialogue with RPP, the journalist revealed that the channel’s General Management gave instructions not to broadcast President Castillo’s statement where he says that ”this press is a joke”.
In the last block of Face to face, Chávez pointed out that seven years ago he was “lucky enough to get to TV Peru”, despite the fact that “many colleagues said ‘be careful not to go to work at the State signal'”.
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“But the idea, the promise, the objective was to build or collaborate, something that would go from what was called the State signal —some say it even more pejoratively: the Government channel— to a public television channel, which is what that democracies should count and that is what citizens deserve”, he said.
“Obviously, plurality has been my humble contribution in these years, through the governments of Ollanta Humala, PPK, Martín Vizcarra, the very brief Manuel Merino de Lama and Francisco Sagasti. Now we have reached this other situation (government of Pedro Castillo), where unfortunately plurality does not seem to be the flag”, the press man added.
Enrique Chávez thanked his audience and made a call to “take care of our institutions.”
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“Today I have been informed of my untimely dismissal, so I want to thank you for the opportunity to let me enter your homes all this time and, I insist, to put this grain of sand in what we have to understand: public communication. Today is the time to take care of our institutions and, there is no doubt! TV Peru is one of them, the channel for all Peruvians”, were his last words in the State signal.
