This Friday’s covers narrate, and in what way, the power of American imperialism. María Corina Machado went to visit Donald Trump at the White House. She went there accompanied by the frown she felt when she realized that the American president and Viceroy of Venezuela preferred to make an agreement with Chavismo rather than hand over power to her. And he was carrying an offering: the original Nobel Peace Prize medal he received (and which the Narcissist-in-Chief also coveted). The Spanish press does everything it can to support her, but the images don’t lie: María Corina appears photographed already outside the White House grounds, because the meeting took place without photographers, an exceptional fact considering that Trump always has his portrait taken. The Countryperhaps with a bit of cursing, crops the photograph so that a sign is visible that can be read with ulterior motives: “Restricted area. Do not enter“. The ex-deputy delivered the tribute on the altar of despair, but so many hours passed until the White House distributed a photo of the moment – and of terrible quality – that it was already too late for the press here. The result? Covers where you can see her with the bars, in the background, that keep tourists and curious people a couple of hundred meters from the offices. Irons that remind, moreover, of the bars of a prison.
“Trump receives María Corina with the promise of elections, but without a calendar”, says theAbctrying to cover up how meager the income has been. The World survey strip to say that his electoral expectations quadruple those of Delcy Rodríguez. Spanish newspapers, in general, maintain a parallel narrative that is very voluntarist but with little anchoring in reality. The only funny thing, at least, is to read them now talking about political prisoners, a concept that, you know why, they used much more aggressively eight years ago.
