Communication and Political Violence in Venezuela: The Elections to the Constituent National Assembly According to the Newspapers El Impulse and Correo Del Orinoco (2017)

Abstract

It’s an analysis of the news published in the front pages of the newspapers El Impulso and el Correo del Orinoco on the process of convocation and elections to the National Constituent Assembly in 2017 in Venezuela. Headlines and leads are compared from which five categories and eleven subcategories emerged, based on the theories of the personification of politics, the agenda setting, the political agenda, and post-truth. Amid the polarization and violence in the streets, Correo, controlled by the government of Nicolás Maduro, was the one that most appealed to the emotions of its audience, while the political personification around the figure of the late Hugo Chávez in official media did not have the intensity of previous years. El Impulso dedicated more space to the confrontation of the Constituent process than Correo del Orinoco.