Six years after the death of Teodoro Petkoff, founder of SuchWhichhis gaze on the country remains and the major editorials adjust to the turbulent Venezuela of 2024. Already in 2011, Petkoff warned that “the virtual collapse of the electrical system owes everything to years of unpredictability and lack of investment.”
This October 31, Teodoro Petkoff, founder of the newspaper SuchWhich, It is six years since he died.
His view of the country and his accurate analyzes are valid in today’s Venezuela, in the midst of the political, social and economic crisis.
The evening SuchWhich saw the light of day before public opinion in 2020. One of its great bets was the conscientious, bold and unrestricted look at the turbulent national reality.
The covers, with Petfokk’s editorials, were expected by readers as a reference and as part of the social control, typical of the media.
These were texts that challenged the government and continue to challenge it to this day.
Among the many covers and editorials, we echo some that fit the country we live in.
In 2007, Teodoro Petkoff opened the newspaper with the cover «They will NOT silence us» after Laureano Márquez and the newspaper were sentenced to pay a fine of several tens of millions of bolivars, “for the alleged violation of the Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents.”
Petkoff made it clear that the purpose was to silence the evening: “They won’t succeed. We are going to defeat this sinister intention of the ruling party. We trust that all democrats in the country will feel called to express their proposal, collaborating with Laureano and SuchWhich to pay that unworthy fine.
And so it happened: Venezuelans collaborated in favor of freedom of expression and independent journalism.
The persecution and harassment of the press in the country has worsened, as evidenced by the arrests and the repression against information professionals after the presidential elections of July 28.
On May 18, 2011, Petkoff’s cover appeared under the title «Blackouts: Made in Socialism »a situation that has worsened in recent years during the government of Nicolás Maduro, while citizens have experienced the consequences in their daily lives and in their homes, with a great impact on their already battered pockets.
It is enough to remember the mega blackout of 2019 and all the times that the country has been left in darkness amid the deficiencies of the National Electric System (SEN).
At that time, Teodoro Petkoff lashed out at “the enormous lie” of then-Minister Jorge Giordani that the electricity crisis came from the governments prior to former President Hugo Chávez: “Take charge of your situation, Mr. Chávez.”
Furthermore, our founder then emphasized: “The virtual collapse of the electrical system owes everything to years of unpredictability and lack of investment.”
“Chavismo causes the crisis” was the cover of SuchWhich on September 1, 2013. There, Petkoff referred to the statements of the then Minister of Finance, Nelson Merentes, who said that “social success” has not been accompanied by “economic success.”
In that sense, the founder of our newspaper, and former minister of Cordiplan, warned that “Merentes perceives, without a doubt, because he is not a fool, that this paradox is unsustainable in the medium and long term,” this despite the social missions of the revolution.
Another of the calls for attention on the covers of talWhich He focused on opposition unity. On January 26, 2012, Petkoff opened one of his editions with the title “Without unity there is no life.”
In this way, he warned about the danger that loomed over “the great unitary achievement so laboriously forged over several years.”
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