X-ray of a lie

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Movie
German title X-ray of a lie
Original title Radiografía de una mentira
Country of production Venezuela
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2004
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Wolfgang Schalk ,
Thaelman Urgelles
production El Gusano de Luz
cut Wolfgang Schalk,
Thaelman Urgelles
occupation

X-ray of a Lie ( Spanish : Radiografía de una mentira ) is a Venezuelan television documentary created in 2004 . She tries to prove inaccuracies and manipulations of image material in the documentary The revolution will not be televised , which deals with the coup d'état against Hugo Chávez attempted in Venezuela on April 11, 2002 .

presentation

The film shows a panel discussion at the private university Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas , in which the two producers Wolfgang Schalk and Thaelman Urgelles analyze the film The revolution will not be televised . Excerpts from the film are faded in and confronted with recordings from Venezuelan television stations and other, partly unpublished film material. Present on the podium are the Venezuelan scientists Milagros Betancourt and Raquel Gamus, the filmmaker Oscar Lucien and the Venezuelan general Manuel Antonio Rosendo. Sometimes the camera pans briefly into the audience.

content

First of all, it is stated that the criticized film follows a concept that is based on four requirements:

  • In Venezuela, a small white minority rules over a majority of mestizos and African-Americans.
  • Hugo Chavez was elected president by the suppressed majority.
  • The attempted coup on April 11, 2002 came from the white minority.
  • Chavez was rescued two days later, on April 13, by his supporters, the majority of the Venezuelan population.

The documentary filmmakers consider these claims to be incorrect and also accuse the criticized film of numerous inaccuracies and deliberate manipulations.

  • The recordings of cheering Chavez supporters shown at the beginning are at least one year old (8''00 '' ').
  • Recordings showing an anti-Chavist, upper-middle-class vigilante group during target practice were shot under false pretenses (the producers pretended to be BBC reporters) and also incorrectly dated. They were not, as claimed, created in January, but in June 2002, only after the coup (15''00 '' ').
  • People at an apolitical street festival would be falsely presented as supporters of Chavez, who came to the Miraflores presidential palace to defend him. As evidence, a sign with the inscription Consolidado is cited, which was not in front of the Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup (22''10 '' ').
  • The claim to have filmed snipers shooting at demonstrating Chavez supporters that day is false. No sniper can be seen in the film (27''00 '' ').
  • Pictures of the massacre at the Puente Llaguno, during which several followers of Chavez were shot, were electronically processed (enlarged) so that a vehicle of the Policía Metropolitana, which was on Avenida Baralt, cannot be seen. Chavez's followers shown in the film sequence shoot in the direction of this vehicle. Before that, pictures are shown showing the Avenida Baralt under the Puente Llaguno deserted to show that the anti-government demonstration did not pass there. However, these images were filmed at lunchtime when the anti-Chavez protesters were not there. The backdating is based on the length of the shadow. The shots were taken after the demonstration at 5.30 p.m. This is proven by a dried blood stain from a demonstrator who was shot at 4.30 p.m. (29''00 '' '- 38''00' '').
  • It is alleged that Chavez did not have an opportunity to address the population. The claim is false: From 3:45 p.m. onwards, a speech by Chavez was broadcast across the country on all television stations, the television stations are obliged to do so ( Cadena ) (44''10 '' '). During this broadcast, the screen was illegally shared by some private television stations and pictures of the massacre allegedly carried out by the government appeared next to Chavez. In 2002, Chavez had a total of 4407 minutes of broadcast time via the Cadenas . The program Aló Presidente on public channel 8 is not included here, as it is only broadcast on state television and radio. (14''15 '' ').
  • The claim that Channel 8 was occupied and closed by the military on the evening of April 11 is false: The channel broadcast until 9.30 p.m., after which the employees left the building voluntarily (48''20 '' ').
  • Chavez's alleged resignation was announced on television by the Army Inspector General at 3:20 a.m. on April 12th. This is concealed in Chavez-Inside the Coup (59''00 '' '). (In fact, the news of Chavez's resignation was a hoax.)
  • The armored vehicles that surround the presidential palace in the evening are shown in Chavez-Inside the Coup as an army coup. This is wrong, in truth these vehicles are there to protect the president after he activated Plan Avila (A military plan to control unrest in Caracas) that morning .
  • The speech of the coup president Carmona on April 12th is underlaid with pictures of protesting Chavez supporters, which were taken a day later, after Carmona's resignation. This is a manipulation with the help of the parallel edition . On April 12, the streets of Caracas remained quiet - with the exception of some antichavists who wanted to storm the Cuban embassy (1'02 '').
  • It is alleged that on April 12th all electronic media were shut down. The allegation is false: at 10.30 p.m. that day, a television station broadcast an interview with the owner of the Tal Cual newspaper , Teodor Petkoff, in which the latter stated that the coup president Carmona had violated the Venezuelan constitution several times with his first decrees '05' ').
  • The claim that the coup failed because of the resistance of Chavez supporters is wrong. He had failed because of the unwillingness of the military to submit to Carmona. At a press conference this criticized Carmona's exceptional laws and called for a return to the rule of law (1'06 "- 1'12").

Urgelles and Schalk also refer to alleged further errors in the criticized film and present a different overall picture of the events than the criticized documentation.

Reactions

Panafilms and the umbrella organization of the Venezuelan basic media ANMCLA produced the documentation Puente Llaguno-Claves de una masacre to reconstruct the events at the Puente Llaguno on the day of the coup , which mainly deals with the subject of fatal shots and tries to prove that Chavez supporters are indeed shot, but not killed anyone.

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SOURCE?
  2. ↑ rebelion.org