The president of Secan (National Audiovisual Communication Service) Gerardo Sotelo He said that the government called his attention after the tweet he published about the elections in Brazil, where He called Jair Bolsonaro a “facho” and Lula Da Silva a “thief”.
And so, with the triumph of the thief over the facho, another election was left in this long-suffering Latin America. Mommy.
— Gerardo Sotelo (@Cybertario) October 30, 2022
“Did they call him to order for being a rebel?” they asked him this Tuesday on the Primera Mañana program on Radio El Espectador. To which Sotelo replied that the call for attention was not for rebellious, but for reckless.
After the publication on Twitter, leaders of the coalition came out to criticize Sotelo. From Paul Mieresleader of the Independent Party -party to which Mieres belongs- up to hierarchs of the Presidency.
“It was an important mistake because of the function it fulfills. I spoke with him. He is a macana”said Minister Mieres in an interview with Telemundo (Channel 12).
On the other hand, the Secretary of the Presidency Álvaro Delgado declared that the tweet was “an inexcusable error” and added “I radically disagree.”
According to Sotelo, he had to calm down on his social networks. “Finally one has to understand that the role you occupy when you are part of a government, you issue an opinion that in some way may be compromising the government you are part of“, Sotelo said this morning.
media bill
The media bill promoted by the ruling party proposes that the condition of public media as decentralized services, outside the orbit of the Executive Power.
This article has been part of the current media law for nine years, but not working.
“There is no incidence of the Executive Branch in our programming, contracting or guidelines decisions. What happens is that we should not be part of the Executive Branch, so it is legislated todaySotelo said.
“The creation of the decentralized service whose directors should be voted with special majorities in the Senate, separates the public media from the Executive Branch”, because It could happen that the government lowers the line Sotelo said.
The former journalist began his presidency at Secan three years ago and said that since then he found “an organization with scarce and outdated digital content“. And he stressed that YouTube recently sent a plate on the occasion of the “100 thousand subscribersSotelo said.
