The viral message is the written version of the cover that El Chigüire Bipolar took out on the 19th anniversary of the day the late president and then coup leader Hugo Chávez surrendered live before television cameras in 1992
Text: Valentina Gil
According to a message circulating on WhatsApp, El Nacional allegedly published headlines on February 5, 1992 extolling those who took up arms against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. “Miguel Henrique Otero: I will never fight with Chávez”, “Ismael García: Chávez is the closest thing to God that exists” and “Kiko Bautista: I still don’t know where I’m going to get a tattoo of Chávez’s face”, are some examples.
But none of the characters mentioned in the chain gave those statements. The viral message is the written version of the cover that El Chigüire Bipolar took out on the 19th anniversary of the day the late president and then coup leader Hugo Chávez surrendered live before the television cameras.
Although it is a joke, graphic satire has come a long way. In July 2013, political leader Henrique Capriles Radonsky, then governor of Miranda, denounced that the alleged 1992 cover produced by El Chigüire Bipolar in 2011 was reproduced in a Venezuelan history school textbook.
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Do you know that moment when a scientific genius says: I have created a monster? This is how Juan, Oswaldo and Elio felt”, recalls a chronicle from the portal La Vida de Nos about the moment in which Juan Andrés Ravell, Oswaldo Graziani and Elio Casale, creators of El Chigüire Bipolar, confirmed that the satirical production of February 4 had ended up in a textbook as presumptive proof of the historical relevance of Hugo Chavez.
These are the true printed front pages that El Nacional published, both on Tuesday, February 4, 1992 (one of the extraordinary special editions that were published during that historic day, when there were still no Internet news portals that could be updated digitally) and on Wednesday, February 5.
Cover of El Nacional, extraordinary fourth edition of February 4, 1992
Cover of El Nacional, edition of February 5, 1992
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