The director of the National Audiovisual Communication Service (SECAN), Gerardo Sotelo, defended the intervention of the Villa Española football club, ordered by the Minister of Public Education, Pablo Da Silveira, for allegedly having violated statutes by not calling elections within the due period. , for making demonstrations with social networks, and because its players adhered to causes such as the search for the disappeared or the “Yes” in the referendum against the LUC.
“Freedom of Expression is a fundamental human right because without it, the human person cannot fully develop,” Sotelo began by saying in a thread written on his Twitter account. “In other words, illegitimately limiting someone’s freedom of expression violates their dignity as a person. This right includes both the right to express their opinions, works and feelings, as well as the right to receive what the rest of the people have to express”, he added.
And he went on to assert that with legal persons, “exactly the opposite occurs, and for the same reason.” Sotelo understands that the people who make up the sports clubs are guaranteed the right to express themselves freely, but the sports clubs, “Which are legal persons, like any public or private organization, can only express themselves freely in those matters for which they were created.”
Having said all this, the hierarch maintains that these types of institutions “only express themselves through press releases or publications in the media, their own or those of third parties” and that “they lack freedom of expression.”
It adds that this prohibition to have freedom of expression for public and private institutions “It is good for everyone: for the organizations and the community because it prevents the conscience of any of its members from being violated, be they few or many.”
Sotelo concluded his thread of tweets with a series of statements warning of alleged arbitrariness that would turn any organization “on a battlefield, initially only ideological, on issues beyond its nature. It is very worrying that, at this point in our development as a democratic and secular society, it is necessary to read anti-legal Chicano policies and have to explain fundamental republican principles and values such as these.”
“The players signed against the LUC”
One of the reasons for the intervention, according to the Minister of Culture himself, is that there were players who signed against the LUC “And the club did nothing.”
“The club’s statute has an article (article 5) that says that the institution has to totally refrain from any political or religious pronouncement, and that activities of that nature should not be allowed on the club’s premises. I don’t know why the issue of the disappeared is being given so much prominence, “said Da Silveira at a press conference on June 24, when he publicly revealed the intervention.
“The point that set off the alarms and that generated the complaint is that, on the field, that is, in the club’s facilities, players, with a team that had the club’s shield, signed against the LUC, they were photographed, that was It went up to the networks, and the authorities (of the club) did nothing at that time, so that is a departure from the club’s statutes.
