Prensa libre e informada para la Seguridad Nacional

Abstract

The constitutional obligation to participate in National Defense is affected by the lack of effectiveness in generating a culture of National Security, in which the media have a responsibility that needs to be promoted. For this purpose, journalists, communicators in general, who belong to a journalistic organization need to have better training on these issues, which not only have correspondence for the Armed Forces or the National Police. This need implies an effective interaction between the media and the components of the National Defense System, particularly with the active intervention of the entity in charge of managing and articulating this important functional system, whose direction falls on the first public servant of the country: The President of the Republic, as provided in our Political Constitution. Failure to do so may continue to distort public opinion, with the negative effect of creating conditions for the appearance of risk scenarios to the detriment of everyone's security.