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The Macarrulla family has a bad advisor, or is being advised in the worst way. Just like that, with everything and pleonasm —and, if they want, add redundancy—, they have handled themselves very badly. Anyway, everything is terrible with them.
And although they now want to distance themselves from the attempt to censor the Listín Diario, the truth is that they are the main axis of a tremendous blunder (although they weren't precisely the ones involved), because, as expected, the videos of Macarrulla's son have resurfaced, involved in the Medusa case, admitting the facts he is accused of.
The Listín Diario is 135 years old, more than the sum of three or four generations of the Macarrulla family. Therefore, we don't know what made them think (whoever did it or whoever did them) that such an ultimatum could go unnoticed to a media outlet that has survived two U.S. interventions, a 31-year tyranny, a civil war, a 12-year autocracy, and the crises and vices that the imperfect third-world and banana republic democracy foster.
Pretending to silence the press with pressure is not only clumsy, but revealing. It demonstrates a total disconnection from history, institutionalism, and public opinion.
In times where information flows in seconds and the truth is recorded on video, threatening a newspaper for doing its job is like trying to cover the sun with a sieve.
