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A controversy surrounding the series about the death of Eduardo Frei Montalva It has been generated these days, especially after the National Television Council decided not to approve its financing for the second consecutive year.
The creator of the project, Pablo Díaz, criticized the former minister Genaro Arriagada, who is part of the evaluation team. The militant DC responded.
Now it is the turn of the former president’s family who raise their voices after what happened with the production. “We deeply regret that, for the second consecutive year, a circumstantial majority of the CNTV decided not to approve the project,” says the statement signed by Carmen Frei Ruiz-Tagle and Maria Paz, Eugene and María Francisca Ortega Frei.
“‘Assassination, the assassination of the president’ aims to highlight the historical importance of Eduardo Frei Montalva. This work describes his opposition to the 1980 plebiscite and to the constitutional project that arose from that act. Also how he was harassed, persecuted and assassinated by the Chilean military dictatorship. We have the deepest conviction that this merce story is told and known by our country. This is not only of importance for a political sector “, they maintained.
Finally, they affirmed that the “political pressures” are notorious. “The political blockade that this work has suffered. This veto is in evidence, as recorded in the voting records for two consecutive years, where all the right-wing CNTV advisers did not grant a single vote to ‘Assassination’.
“Historical truth cannot be denied and neither can it be hidden“, they concluded in the statement.
