The communist government of Venezuela announced this month the launch of a reality television program called M Factor, in which native musicians will contend to include their songs featured on dictator Nicolás Maduro’s phony presidential campaign soundtrack.
The future regular real show, Maduro government officials announced on Tuesday, will started airing on April 28 and wrap up on June 15. Casting for the movie’s members will move from Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 14.
The show may become aired by TVes, a route that is part of the communist government’s large condition- owned media apparatus. TVes was launched in 2007 after soon tyrant Hugo Chávez forced the closure of Venezuela’s oldest television network, RCTV, taking control of the show’s spread system:
Winston Vallenilla, a socialist senator and the show’s number, explained that the real present will eventually see three men and three women chosen as winners whose original songs, regardless of music style, may be part of Maduro’s political strategy.
” What Venezuela has experienced has produced designs. Hope is in the roads and has spread across all genres of music and phrases,” Vallenila said. ” The topics may speak about the country, Venezuela and the Revolution”.
The “award”, Vallenilla explained, will be to “accompany the President of the Republic during this ancient strategy” and to organize” their own music creation”.
The winners will also have the opportunity to advance their musical careers and collaborate with musicians affiliated with the regime like Antonio” Potro” Alvarez and Omar Enrique.
Camila Fabri, Maduro’s alleged top money launderer and “financial brain,” will produce the program. Saab was detained by the United States. In 2020, Cape Verde authorities are accused of using the US financial system to steal$ 350 million from Venezuela’s state funds through shady affordable housing deals. In December, President Joe Biden’s administration released him while Saab was undergoing trial proceedings in a U.S. court.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro ( L), receives businessman Alex Saab ( R ), at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela on December 20, 2023. Washington negotiated for the release of Colombian businessman and diplomat Alex Saab in exchange for Caracas agreeing to release 36 people, including 12 American citizens. ( Photo by Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu via Getty Images )
Fabri, an Italian national, is actively wanted by Italian authorities alongside Saab on separate money laundering charges.
A fictitious presidential election is scheduled for July 28th according to the Maduro regime. Maduro is “running” in the fraudulent electoral event against regime- approved “opposition” candidates and known collaborationists, all but securing a new six- year term for himself.
The regime banned Venezuelan opposition’s frontrunner candidate, MarÃa Corina Machado, of the country’s only mainstream center- right party, Vente Venezuela, from running for public office as punishment for her calls to impose sanctions on the rogue socialist regime in response to its continued human rights violations.
Opposition coalition presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024 ( Jesus Vargas/AP ).
The regime also forbade Machado’s substitute candidate, 80- year- old academic Corina Yoris, from registering her candidacy, leaving the Venezuelan electorate without a viable electoral choice in the upcoming sham election. Many of Vente Venezuela’s managers have been arrested in the Maduro regime’s” Bolivarian Fury” dissident crackdown wave.
Six Argentine ambassadors ‘ official residences in Caracas are where six Venezuelan dissidents close to Machado are kept afloat. The Maduro government responded by limiting access to the residence’s water and power sources. The Maduro regime has not responded to the government’s formal request, but the government of President Javier Milei has since written in writing that the six people be given safe passage out of Venezuela.
In exchange for a string of ambiguous promises that the regime would hold a “free and fair” presidential election in 2024, the Biden administration gave the Maduro regime a still active oil and gas sanctions relief package that has effectively restored the regime’s main source of income in October. Venezuela’s oil can now be sold freely on domestic and international markets thanks to the sanctions relief. Despite Maduro violating the agreement and outlawing legitimate opposition candidates from his “election,” Biden has not rescinded the sanctions.
The Venezuelan socialist regime has been working on original tracks for its propaganda pieces for years, as evidenced by the reality show debut. In 2012, late dictator Hugo Chávez’s presidential campaign featured a song titled” Chávez, Corazón del Pueblo” (” Chávez, Heart of the People” ).  ,
Men on motorcycles ride past a mural depicting Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez ( 1954- 2013 ) in Caracas, Venezuela, March 2, 2023 ( MIGUEL ZAMBRANO/AFP via Getty Images ).
The Maduro regime debuted an official song for the socialist dictator’s 2018 sham election called” Juntos, Todo es Posible” (” Together Everything Is Possible” ). Maduro’s propaganda cartoon superhero alter ego, Súper Bigote (” Super Mustache” ), debuted his official salsa theme song in February 2023.
The Maduro regime co-opted the popular hit” Despacito” in 2017, which was released with modified lyrics in support of the government’s campaign for a” Constituent Assembly,” which upheld the then-opposition-led National Assembly’s legislative authority.  ,
The modified version of” Despacito” had lyrics calling for the election of the now defunct Constituent Assembly and pro-socialist lyrics. The incident prompted Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, the song’s original performers, to condemn the Maduro regime’s unauthorized use of the song. Shortly after, Maduro claimed that the United States had forced the artists to condemn the song’s use by his regime.
Christian K. Caruzo is a writer from Venezuela who writes about life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter , here.
