The vengeance

National

"Both parts are wronged, annoying”: Felipe Chao

The vengeance of the status quo

For: Carlos Damian                                                      March 27, 2015

Portal of communicator news reproduces international reactions on its ceasing

México. -   Through their vice-president of Institutional Relationships, Felipe Chao, the company MVS virtually gave had concluded the conflict with the former communicator of the first emission of its newscasts: "I don't see and I don't consider it (the possibility of an arrangement). Both parts are wronged, annoying, and it would not see arrangement possibility at this time some. Chao highlighted that the company is “offended” by not having been informed previously of the use of its mark in the incorporation to another informative platform (Mexicoleaks), which didn't mention expressly, as well as (Carmen) Aristegui “for what they believe that it is an attack to the freedom of speech". And he added: "I want to leave in undoubtedly this anything it has to do with attacks to the freedom of speech. Aristegui has been a clear example of the freedom that one has in MVS. He/she doesn't have anything to do with the government's pressures by no means". Chao considered that the versions are only speculations and I believe that “we lose all". Of course MVS (Joaquin Vargas), a journalist that deserves our respect, loses and they are only in the professional thing, but also in the labor thing. Carmen Aristegui loses a space that we had come consolidating."    Journalist in the street after the news on the president's wife  Aristegui in contrast has still stayed in silence, and in its Webpage ‘Aristegui Noticias’ they spread diverse relative information to the national and international repercussion that has had the journalist's ceasing and of its team, from the information deployed in The Guardian or in the BBC, to the official statement of the Secretary of Government, intellectuals and journalists' positioning. One of the international news diffused in the portal was of The New York Times, under the title “journalist dismissed after a report on the first lady". Of equal it forms they deployed the positioning of the American organization National Security Archive, specialized in declassification of official documents, with headquarters in Washington: "The loss of these journalists and of the whole team of Aristegui it is a severe blow for the independent journalism and the freedom of speech in Mexico". It was known that the communicator values the possibility to offer a press conference to give to know her posture and the litigious process that she would continue after the rupture with MVS (Joaquin Vargas). Chao, the directive recognized that it is no longer the suitable one and he mentioned that the origin of the conflict is not the suitable one.   He mentioned that in the editorial meeting of last Monday 9, the journalist didn't inform of her pretense of incorporating to Mexicoleaks, for what the owners found out to the air. In this context MVS imposed conditions that could not be accepted by Aristegui. Chao pointed out that from a principle the company announced that it would not adopt measures related with not allowed use of its trademark’s owner.  He affirmed that to consider reporters Irving Herrera and Daniel Lizarraga's dismissed like preamble to cease to Carmen Aristegui (CA), it is only part of “a culture of the suspicious one", because from a principle MVS announced that it would adopt convenient measures. As long as the organization Mexicoleaks condemned the exit and the “closing of a space informative critic and independent, with what is attempted against the freedom of speech and the necessary plurality in a democracy”. He regretted “that the decision of MVS is based on the participation of the editorial team (of Aristegui) in the alliance Mexicoleaks, as if the democratic values that encourage to this platform -among them the freedom of speech, the right to the information, the transparency and the rendition of bear in mind - they inconvenienced to that company or they affected its interests."  It is not aspired to convince them it is only sought to conquer them  The secretary of Government (SG) it said that the case of Aristegui - MVS is a conflict among matters and it asserted that the government “has respected and valued the critical exercise and professional of the journalism permanently". In a brief " pronouncement " emitted yesterday afternoon, the dependence points out "regarding the dispute between News MVS and Carmen Aristegui, the government of the Republic manifests the following thing: ‘It is desirable that this conflict among matters is solved, so that the communication company and the journalist follow contributed contents of value to the Mexican society’". “The government has respected and valued the work of the journalism permanently and it will continue making it with the conviction that the plurality of opinions is indispensable it is indispensable for the invigoration of the democratic life of the country". Some consulted officials rejected that behind the journalist's discharge it exists influence or the federal government's pressure in the decision of MVS, of Joaquin Vargas. This decision of informing the journalists and the informative means is not common that Government emits “pronouncements" and less than matters among “privates". The institutional relationship with the radio concessionaires and television is in charge of the Subsecretaria de Normatividad. The executive is Andres Imre Chao Ebergenyi who has occupied diverse positions in the public sector and in media.   On the other hand the artist of Oaxaca Francisco Toledo manifested his support to journalist CA, after estimating that her discharge has all the tints of a political vengeance orchestrated from the high spheres of -similar power to when CA gave to know that he was alcoholic Felipe Calderon -.  He manifested that the dismissed charge denotes the authoritarianism it continues being part of the current Mexico and it is not of the past.  He underlined, “it is a pity that this woman so valiant, and whose program has such a big auditory, disappear of the radio". It is required that there are more people than they say what they happen and don't hide the facts. In their opinion this "revenge" is to have given to know the report of the call "White House", reason why from a beginning the reporters that headed the investigation, were fired and to achieve substantial changes it is required that there is not more authoritarian actions than the freedom of speech is guaranteed. He remembered that it is because the media is known excellent situations as the deviation of resources, The White House, the president's special airplane, excessive expenses in the visit to England, the real state properties of Videgaray, Miguel A. Osorio Chong, of the governor of Sinaloa, and others.    The migrants from New York send their support to Aristegui  In other atmospheres the dismissed of the journalist's MVS was known and samples of rejection have been given by defenders of human rights and legislators that considered that the conditions in that its exit of the air was given represent “an attack against the freedom of speech", it is also “a sample of the current government's authoritarianism against the critical voices in the media". Miguel Alonso Raya, coordinator of the PRD in San Lazaro building, exposed that in these moments it should be bet by the plurality and the respect unrestricted to the freedom of speech. "It is a topic that it should be solved in terms of the reassignment of the communicator, because the argument that weighed about the farewell decision is flimsy". According to Roberto Lopez Suarez, “it is a topic that it has to do with the annoyance that produces to the régime a journalist. Beyond being an administrative and labor problem, the government's political pressure existed". For Morena, Manuel Huerta and Alfonso Durazo they considered that the action represents “an attack against the freedom of speech and they referred that the disappearance of the newscast obeys the audacity of the communicator to investigate". For second day, students, workers and academics of the UAM continued FM with the gathering of signatures to request the general rector of that house of studies, Salvador Vega and Leon the opening of the Radius UAM 94.1 to the group of journalists headed by CA, after theirs ceasing in MVS Radio. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 4-5, March 18, 2015).