PUNTO DE VISTA | jueves 06/01/2011
América afronta una hora crítica. Corren vientos retardatarios en materia de la libertad de expresión en varios países del continente. Ese derecho fundamental consagrado en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos no corresponde a los medios de comunicación y a los periodistas solamente. Tiene que ver con el derecho de la gente a recibir y emitir información de manera abierta y con el flujo libre de las ideas.
El crimen organizado y las mafias siembran muerte en México.
Los regímenes autoritarios intentan de distintas formas controlar contenidos. Chávez en Venezuela impuso sus cadenas, con cantos y discursos grandilocuentes. Tomó canales de TV para el Estado, cerró al influyente Radio Caracas Televisión y penetró en el accionariado de Globovisión. Acosa a la prensa y ahora va por los contenidos de Internet. No quiere dejar fisura para que la crítica y la disidencia respiren.
En el sur, el peronismo argentino fue contra la gran prensa. Clarín y La Nación, los diarios de más circulación, sufren el acoso oficial. Intentan una ley controladora y un antiguo y modesto colaborador en la provincia que fue bastión político de los Kirchner ahora es empresario de medios importantes.
En Bolivia fueron por la vía de la discriminación y el racismo que debió existir en ciertos medios, pero se buscan ahora controles fuertes.
La palabra de la presidenta de Brasil Dilma Rouseff es aire fresco: “Prefiero el ruido de los periódicos al silencio de las dictaduras”. Para pensar.
http://www4.elcomercio.com/Politica/libertad____acorralada.aspx
Analysis:
I agree with Dilma Rouseff and her phrase that says “I prefer the sound of newspaper than the silence of dictatorships”. A President always has his opposition. It’s something common and normal so why are they afraid?
Every body has their right to express themselves and their opinions are really valuable. If the liberty of expression is forbidden by president, whoever he is, he isn’t a real leader. Expression is something fundamental, something natural.
I quote a phrase I read no so long ago by an author unknown.
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves”
It’s so true, because when people believe in themselves, they feel better and try their best for their country. A president or a leader must create confidence among the people, not shut their ideas down, otherwise he will create a repressed and angry society, turning his opposition bigger.
What’s the point of canceling TV Shows? What’s the point of threatening people? What’s the point of shutting the voices down?
The people’s ideas won’t change anyway; they will just find another way to express themselves.
A President, who doesn’t respect the people, won’t be respected.
He might be feared and obeyed but in exchange for what? Power and Money?.
In the end, people would be so sick of being ignored that they will rebel against the leader, sooner or later. History always repeats, no matter if its in politics, culture or another.
An example of dictatorship is Cuba. A lot of people are sick of the dictatorship and a lot of citizens try to go to any other place for a better future. Castro has been in power for a long time but is he really respected? Is he really admired by his country?
If that was true, many Cubans wouldn’t be here or any other place talking about Cuba’s horrible situation.
I’m not talking if the way of governing of any country is good or bad, what I’m talking about is the respect that the leader has for his country. A leader must try to understand and listen to his country.
I quote again, but this time I quote Kenneth A. Wells.
“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with”
What I try to say with that quote is that a leader should try to fix what he isn’t doing right but instead some leaders just try to avoid the topic by deleting it or making it disappear. Some of them don’t even try to understand the people; they just want to be understood.
Once again I ask, if they are real leaders and trust themselves
What are they afraid of?
I agree with Franky. I really believe in liberty of expression and not only in the political sense but, I think that it goes from wearing whatever clothes you want to wear until supporting or not a political ideology. Furthemore, if they are in public charges they should be willing to accept that not everybody supports them and subsequently there will be critics.
ResponderEliminarfranky, i also agree with you. i believe all of us have the liberty of saying and thinking what we want. in politics , it is similar. there cannot be a group of 10 people with the same opinion, the opinions will always vary. so the president will always have opposition, and he must hear it for knowing what they thind, and that information discern it and knowing in what he is acting wrong. but there are some ¨medios¨ which they say their opinion in a distorted wasy , meaning lying. and that is not benefitial for the president because his principl job is to stay in power, and if he lets people to tell other people lies about him, he would be acting in a stupid way because it would be sure that he wil be taken out of the job.
ResponderEliminarI agree with you Franky and with the persons of the last comments. I think the liberty of expression is the most important in a democratic government, becuase if it does´t has it is no democratic. I also believe that the liberty of expression has to be measured but not in a way that the only rigth thing is what the president say, a president that is no tolerant with the comments of the people can´t govern the state because in that case he is not representing the people in stead he is only representing himself.
ResponderEliminar"in times of universal deceit, saying the truth becomes a revolutionary act" O. Wilde. Good analysis (20/20)
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