The narcodicator, Nicolás MaduroHe has affirmed that the suspension of a “Venezuelan cinema” at Casa de América evidence José Luis Martínez-Almeidaand the president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayusoto which the qualifier of «Nazi».
«They are afraid of the truth in Venezuela. Why will it be? Apology of the Chavista regime.
The Venezuela Embassy In Madrid he has announced that he will organize the suspended cycle again in a New location still to be defined. Maduro has now advocated the dissemination of films through streaming and social networks platforms: “From Venezuela with love for Spain.” With this phrase, the dictator has defended that veiled films allude to “Venezuelan resistance against alleged international conspiracies.”
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The cycle is titled Cinema and Memory: The voice of the people and the struggle for sovereignty and is organized by the Venezuela embassy with two films conceived as propaganda artifacts of the Bolivarian revolution. Operation Orión (2018) and the battle of the bridges (2020) They are part of the cinematographic catalog of Chavismo, already broadcast in the Venezuelan public media and were going to be broadcast since Monday in Madrid.
Committees of relatives of political prisoners, associations of migrants and activists have launched their cry to heaven to what they consider an attempt to bleach of the president De facto, Nicolás Maduro, crowned by force and illegally in January after the greatest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America and after wild repression undertaken by Chavista forces.
The outrage of Venezuelanswho have summoned protests in the Plaza de Cibeles, has forced the protest of the City Council and the Community of Madrid, which are part of the public consortium in charge of the House of America, together with the Foreign Ministry.
The Minister of Culture, Mariano de Pacosaid that this cycle breaches “the basic norms of any democratic institution”, while the vice mayor, Immaculate Sanzit has also joined the repudiation ensuring that these films are only «a Speaker of authoritarianism».
Before the decision was known, the director of Casa América, León de la Torreexplained that the entity gives its space to an embassy, ”as stated in the statutes, to broadcast cinema that may or not, but that does not encourage illegality.” In addition, he admitted his Concern about discomfort that the cycle has generated in Venezuelan groups residing in Madrid.
De la Torre stressed that in recent months very critical films have been projected, presented critical books with the Maduro government and meetings with Latin American journalists and many Venezuelans in the exile who have had the speaker of the house when they have asked for it.
