On 15th October 2014, president Nicolas Maduro invite AP, among other media outlets. The evening was organized to show to the whole nation the evidence that demonstrate how the member of parliament Robert Serra was assassinated fifteen days before. One of the sad things that I have to see was the question that Mr Goodman did after he received the opening turn for the Q&A in the room “Sol del Peru”, Miraflores Palace en Caracas, Venezuela. It is important to say that in the national drama the Venezuelan people has being put through in those fifteen days , this presentation was a turning point and the first question giving to a foreign media outlet of the high relevance, but Mr Goodman chose to ask something else, he asked about the petrol prices. That was his opening, the question was not impulsive nor accidental, because he read it.
Robert Serra was one of the most outstanding member of the Venezuelan parliament. Serra was representation of the Venezuelan youth, and held the record of being the youngest ever public servant in being appointed by popular vote and be sitting in the National Assembly. Robert Serra developed a speech that was very caustic to the opposing factions and regain a well define role model among the new generation of politicians in Venezuela. Direct, authentic, incendiary and fast, he spoke really fast and clearly, everybody got speed up after his speeches. Sadly, Robert Serra was kill in a way that shocked the population and many felt ill about the circumstances of his death.
His assassination was a subject of multiple analysis until that evening, 15th October, when the president Nicolas Maduro invite several journalist and media outlet to search together into it. The invitation was to discuss one of the most sensible and painful event Venezuelans has to endure and involved dangerous war games that are complex and need careful attention, but Mr Goodman choose to ask about the petrol price. In this evening Mr Goodman behaved with such level of insensitivity in regards to the high tension the country were put through by imported violence and his line of questioning were so out of context that worries many where his mind is dwelling.
Given the fact that Mr Goodman only report “the worst” in every of his inputs about Venezuela, as the sample of tweets shows here, and taking note that when he is in front of the president of Venezuela and the subject is insecurity and political crimes, he choose to distract away the focus of attention, I wonder if he fit for the job or is he professionally out of focus about what means being a journalist and reporting from Venezuela, or is this just another way to offer protection to the criminals, to made a distraction, play down the gravity of the events, and made them looks trivial, irrelevant.
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