The TVN crisis tarnishes La Moneda's strategy to get out of the water after the crime of Camilo Catrillanca

After the perfect storm in which La Moneda was submerged after the crime of Camilo Catrillanca, it seemed that this week in Palacio they had finally managed to regain some control of the agenda, which was the only thing that had happened. they had lost the afternoon. this November 14 with the erratic operation of Jungle Command in which the young member of the Mapuche community died. But the unexpected resignation of Francisco Orrego to the presidency of the board of directors TVN tarnished all the strategy elaborated within the Piner administration and that until yesterday had been well evaluated, to leave the government

The irregular treatment of disputes and the initial misreading made by the offices of the Ministry of the Interior after the confirmation of Catrillanca's death resulted in the administration of Sebastián Piñera in a road without return, which he led them to the lowest point of approval the president had during his eight months at La Moneda: only 38% in the last Cadem survey. In addition, the agitated days have highlighted the internal struggle of the government so that the different visions of the problem in La Araucanía oppose the Minister of Social Development, Alfredo Moreno, and his Minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick, about which [19659003] Faced with such a scenario, the palace had no choice but to implement a communication strategy involving ministries with government parliamentarians, with a clear objective and premise: public attention on the conflict in La Araucanía and the information that continues to appear about the circumstances of Catrillanca's death, as the fact that the latest expertises have determined that there were no traces of In the clothes or hands of the comunero, he was not armed when he received the bullet from Jungla's command.

The instructions of La Moneda Monday, in the expanded political committee, it was "put forward to balance the sensations", as explained by a parliamentarian of Chile Vamos, for which the ruling coalition has been invited to try to install as many big issues on the agenda as possible. This, because at this meeting at the headquarters of the executive – added to the right coalition – "it was acknowledged that a cost had been paid" with the Catrillanca affair that it had to be reversed.

By coincidence and magnifying glbad, they fell to the government 's strategy the results of the investigation of Paz Ciudadana on Monday 26, figures that were highlighted this morning by Piñera with the minister' s. Interior, Andrés Chadwick, as part of Citizen Security Week. The internal mandate was to highlight only the numbers appearing in blue and all members of the executive branch had the obligation to comment in front of the media.

Meanwhile, the government played the joker with the migrants, with intense communication. First thing the morning of the airport. Undersecretary of the Interior, Rodrigo Ubilla, resigned live and live from a second plane with 179 Haitians who were sent back to his country. The letter on his sleeve announced that the same plane would go through Venezuela to transport a contingent of Chileans. with the problems arising from the complex political and economic situation of this country.

Tuesday, so it is time to play fully with the Venezuelan question, which brings only benefits to the government. It is not for nothing that the top staging was in the image of President Piñera with a baby under one year old in his arms. Although the government insisted that flights and negotiations had been scheduled for some time, the specific day would have been adapted to fit the defined strategy.

That same Tuesday, Piñera arrived in the municipality of Ñuñoa to start the white march of what will be the new metro line 3, which will begin to work in early January. A citizen issue, of great interest in the metropolitan area, widely disseminated in the media.

Although the law on gender identity has always been conflictual for law and for this administration, yesterday the ceremony took place from its promulgation also played a role in the design of the agenda, since the activity under the chairmanship of the Minister of Justice, Hernán Larraín – to which parliamentarians were not invited, to avoid noise – was scheduled between Monday and Tuesday. , at the express request of Palacio.

In three days, La Moneda presented a range of topics – security of citizens, immigrants, metro, value agenda and Venezuela – to overshadow the vision of the conflict in La Araucanía, where In addition, the head of Conadi, Jorge Retamal has resigned and a confidential report has been received, confirming that the carabinieri were following in the footsteps of Catrillanca well before 14. November

All government projects are reinforced with the Minister of Finance, Felipe Larraín, who is trying to calm down quickly unemployment of public sector employees during the 2019 readjustment; Chadwick receiving opposition senators Jose Miguel Insulza (PS), Jorge Pizarro (DC) and Felipe Harboe (PPD) in La Moneda; and with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Ampuero, have focused on the extradition of Commander Emilio, as part of the Jaime Guzmán case. In addition to this, there are 16 legislative emergencies sent by Segpres, which evoke projects of great resonance, such as the subsidy to the Sename centers, the payment of 30 days to the suppliers and that which concerns the implementation of the project. initiative that increases the penalty in the case of so-called portonazos.

Bucket of cold water

Nobody doubts that the resignation of Orrego as chairman of the board of directors of TVN is not a strong information impact, but it is It is also true that not only was the strategy tarnished, but that it was an episode that no one was waiting for at La Moneda and that once again drove the Government to project an image conflict.

Yesterday, at La Moneda, they recognized that they were totally surprised. the release of the man that the government itself had installed several months ago at the head of the state channel and, although its release was a real possibility, they did not think it would be So suddenly and with such a hard tone The current administration ruined the day, as President Piñera himself suggested, because it has already generated an internal noise within the ruling party. Deputy Secretary Andrés Celis publicly questioned La Moneda's pbadivity over the situation that runs through the public channel and pointed the darts at the spokeswoman, Cecilia Pérez, whom he called "to take action to this subject "he does not want to see TVN bankrupt

The opposition had already warned La Moneda that Orrego was part of the problem rather than the solution and, since the commission of inquiry, the case had been made public on Monday. to arrive in Piñera an office that implicated the absence four times to the subpoenas of this parliamentary organ of always chairman of the board of directors of TVN .

Those who were involved in the plot in the internal television channel related to the resignation of Orrego to a lack of support from the executive and the channel itself, because "everyone has started to let go. That should be – they added – that "a climate as bad as today has never been seen" in Bellavista 0990, as it had no internal legitimacy and has always been considered an absent character.

The piñerista administration knew that TVN would be a puzzle. Yesterday, it's again become a reality, even if it's a topic of discussion at the level of the elite, said the director of the school of advertising UDP. Cristián Leporati said that what was happening complicated La Moneda because it made a lot of noise because it would be the absolute responsibility of the government itself. "The profile of the director who resigned by a means and not as he should be wrong was wrongly chosen. head hunt ."

For badyst Carlos Correa , everything is in the way of dealing with the background situation of TVN . "It has an innovative model that does not hold, the government, with the agreement that it managed to inject more resources is the artificial respiration, but without going to the bottom of the problem.The question of the financial situation is a boiler that will explode at some point, because the channel continues with losses, "he said.