Similarly, most media-focused scholarship about Venezuela is polarized. He elicits strong feelings that divide the nation into pro- and anti-Chávez opposite groups. Political polarization around the figure of Hugo Chávez is a way of life in Venezuela. Media–government relations in the Chávez era: the scholarship I place a spotlight on the genre that dominates Venezuela’s primetime to show the particulars of the difficult coexistence of government and private media, and illuminate their consequences for the writing, production, consumption and international sales of Venezuelan telenovelas, and for the state of Venezuelan television and the country’s media. The source of variable factors is the changing political context which leaves its mark on government–media relationships and on the state of the Venezuelan telenovela industry. In these case studies, there are two constants: all telenovelas were authored by Venezuelan writer Leonardo Padrón, and produced and broadcast by the Venevisión network. This article examines government–media relations through the study of five successful telenovelas written in the last 12 years: El País de las Mujeres (1999), Cosita Rica (2003–4), Ciudad Bendita (2006–7), La Vida Entera (2008–9) and La Mujer Perfecta (2010–11). These five case studies track changes in the legal framework, document instances of self-censorship, tease out the particulars of the difficult coexistence of government and private media, and illuminate the consequences for the writing, production, consumption and international sales of Venezuelan telenovelas, and for Venezuelan television in general. Each show was written and broadcast at a time that defines a period in the history between Chávez and the media. Based on 12 years of research (1999–2011), this article examines government–media relations through the study of five successful telenovelas. We lack, however, studies that illuminate the micro level of the everyday life of mass media in Venezuela’s changing context.
Existing scholarship about the Chávez–media saga provides analyses at the macro level. In Venezuela the history of Hugo Chávez’s revolutionary government cannot be written without paying attention to its complex relationship with the media in a country in which political polarization defines national life. Government–media relationships are both symptomatic and constitutive of a nation. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALS
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