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The former minister, DC militant and current counselor of the National Television Council (CNTV) Genaro Arriagada, referred to the claim, presented through a letter, by Pablo Díaz Del Río, creator and producer of the series “Magnicidio, el assassination del Presidente ”, Where he accuses him that for two consecutive years Arriagada has been the only member of the CNTV, of center-left sensitivity, who does not support the project and has deprived him of having the recognition of the Council. For that reason, the series has not obtained funding. This year, he was applying for $ 499 million.
In this regard, Arriagada told the newspaper La Segunda that “I cannot distribute public funds destined to support artists, due to pressure from the parties. That is unacceptable. It is not moral.”
“If there was someone who defended the judgment of Judge Madrid (on the death of Frei Montalva) it was me,” he recalled, ensuring he was calm about this controversy.
Díaz del Río’s letter was sent to the Christian Democrats. Arriagada also contacted them through a letter, where he rejects “in the most emphatic way that in the qualification of the work of hundreds of artists and creators who participate in these competitive funds, political-partisan alignments may have an influence over creativity. At least that is what I have never been and never will be. “
“Prior to the vote by the Council, a committee of external evaluators delivered a report on the technical and artistic quality of each project. Assassination is not a report on the death of President Eduardo Frei but rather classified in the category of ‘Historical Fiction Documentary “As the evaluators’ report very well says, it is a thriller. The evaluation panel’s proposal placed this project in fourth place among 25 applicants. In general, out of respect for the creators of the audiovisual area, and to avoid partisan political biases in the allocation of these funds, I tend to endorse the ratings made by that committee. In this case, I made an exception placing it in third place (and not fourth), although I have doubts about the relevance, for Frei’s memory Montalva, of being treated his death as a thriller, “he explained.
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