In 1979, Michael Palin starred one of the many delusional scenes of Brian’s life, of the Monty Python, in which different supposedly leftist factions that have very similar names and seek to free themselves from Roman domain in Judea kill each other. The film made fun of everything and all, at the same time. Forty -six years later, the British actor lived a moment that could have belonged to that film when he was arrested seven hours by a group of militiamen in Venezuela while filming a documentary. The news was posted in the telegraph`, and when such nonsense began to comment in Caracas broke another dispute between fiction and the reality of more disturbing consequences. From Washington, President Donald Trump reported about the attack against a ship that “supposedly” transported drugs to the United States and came from, said, from Venezuela. The operation against the Aragua cartel, also pointed out the Republican tycoon, caused the death of 11 “terrorists.” The announcement was accompanied hours later by a video of what would be a quick boat with several people on board and is attacked from the air. The news silenced Nicolás Maduro’s government for a few hours. “They invent a story, a story that nobody believes them”he managed to say the president later, when silence began to make a lot of noise.
The “Fake” hypothesis was then slightly developed by the Minister of Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez. He said it was “Very likely” that the video was created with artificial intelligence although “I can’t confirm with certainty the exact tools used“. The official appealed to a” technical report “, supposedly of his portfolio, which discovered” several anomalies. “The explosion of the ship” resembles a simplified animation, almost cartoons, than to a realistic representation. ” Deepfake “is” increasingly common “and is used for” various purposes, such as entertainment, disinformation or artistic expression. “Madurismo knows them because he turns to them. weeks ago, Materials of that same doubtful quality and digital origin They were used to attack dissidents and doubt their political integrity.
Both mature and their minister saw behind this episode the hand of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubiowho, for Caracas, embodies the most aggressive line of the White House in front of other pragmatic sectors with which agreements that facilitated the deportation of Venezuelan migrants in the United States were facilitated.
Increased political voltage
This interpretive war On the quality and veracity of the images, it has as its background a series of episodes that show an undoubted climb of bilateral tensions. This new crisis unleashed from Trump declared as “Narcoterrorist Organization” the so -called Los Soles Cartelemerged in a Venezuelan prison, extended by various countries in the region and, according to the Miraflores Palace, completely dismantled. This assertion has been questioned by neighboring countries.
Subsequently, the increase to $ 50 million came the reward to those who offer information that allow to capture Maduro, whom the attorney general Pamela Bondi, considered the head of that faction. Later the beginning of an airfolding was known in the Caribbean Sea, COn the cooperation of Curacao, Trinidad and Tobago and the reinforcement of anti -narcotics operations by France in overseas territory. Maduro decided to summon more than four million militiamen before an eventual aggression. The following fact of that saga was Trump’s triumphal announcement about the “precision attack” against the boat.
Disqualifications on the margin, Maduro warned that Washington’s real interest in Venezuela is oil, gas and fertile lands. “They want it for free”. The White House also wants to “end at the root the biggest project that our America has had, which is the Liberator Project of the Great Simón Bolívar”.
The Venezuelan opposition is divided again. Not only does a common roadmap lack that it could put the government in trouble. Trump symbiosis is another reason for discord. “The transition has already begun”, said María Corina Machado, the right of the right and promoter of an uncompromising policy. The moderate sectors, of which the presidential excandidate is part, Henrique CaprilesThey reject folding Washington’s movements.
Guayana as another background
The incident has been known in turn in the midst of Presidential and Legislative Elections In Guayana, the country with which Venezuela has a sovereign litigation for the Esequibo. Two years ago, maturism called a popular consultation for society to pronounce on those 160,000 km2 with large natural resources, wood and minerals. Although the participation in the referendum was low, he left the door open to fantasize with the annexation of the so -called Guayana Esquiba.
The results of the elections will be known on Thursday. It is expected notwithstanding that Irfaan Ali is reelected, of the Progressive/Civic Party (PPP/C), an ally of the United States. His victory was discounted as a consequence of the unprecedented economic growth of GDP thanks to the oil exploitation by the American Mobile Exxon.
Last weekend, Georgetown denounced that shots were recorded from the Venezuelan territory. The government accused Maduro of “Create a war front”. It is the same as Caracas with respect to Washington.
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