Media campaign tries to misrepresent health care in Venezuela in front of Covid-19

The Sector Vice-president of Communication, Culture and Tourism, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced the misrepresentation and aggression against Venezuela that is carried out by instances of power and the mass media of the Colombian extreme right.

“It is despicable that there are instances of power that try to use a situation as terrible as the global pandemic by Covid-19 to try to attack Venezuela through lies”, he condemned.

Rodríguez referred to a publication made on April 6 by the Semana Magazine from Colombia, where a manipulated graph is shown to try to exhibit that the Coronavirus cases in Venezuela are alarmingly growing.

The Sector Vice-president stated that the reason for these attacks is part of a strategy of the Iván Duque government to try to divert attention from the health crisis that the New Granada country is going through.

“What Duque (Iván) is preparing is to lie through the media saying this that the curve in Colombia is flattening and you will see that in a few days, under pressure from the bankers, owners of shopping centers and airlines, he will say that quarantine is going to be relaxed, which is nothing more than sending people to the streets even though the number of cases in Colombia keeps growing”, he said.

Rodríguez assured that the publications of the Semana Magazine are aimed at attacking Venezuela since its owners “Jaime and Gabriel Gilinski”, belonging to the group of bankers that bears the same name, are committed to the Colombian far-right and maintain partnership with magnate George Soros, a declared enemy of Venezuela for trying to seize the country’s resources.

Health absence

The Sector Vice-president assured that in the Republic of Colombia there is an underreporting of cases by Covid-19 and only 20 percent of people are being investigated, while 80 percent are not being registered by the Colombian government.

Likewise, he explained that while Colombia registers a total of 2,574 positive cases for Covid-19, which represents 4.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Venezuela remains at 0.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

He pointed out that Venezuela surpasses Colombia in a fairly large percentage of research with a total of 139 thousand 282 tests carried out, unlike Colombia that has only carried out 699 tests due to the deficit of health care for its population.