Ana Obregón is shocked by Jeffrey Epstein

Ana Obregón and Jeffrey Epstein, in an archive photograph, shown on the program 'Y ahora Sonsoles'.
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Incredibly, and against all narrative logic, you should know that in a television program, the terms have been uttered in the same sentence. Ana Obregón and United States CongressIt happened on Wednesday on the program And now Sonsoles, after the New York Times The program published a report detailing the actress and her family's ties to the pedophile magnate Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison under very strange circumstances. According to the American newspaper, the businessman allegedly helped Obregón's father resolve a serious bankruptcy situation. Epstein was, at the time, having a romantic relationship with the actress.

The program invited Ana Obregón to explain the relationship. Sonsoles Ónega showed an old photograph of Obregón embracing Epstein in a limousine.There she is! So young!"," exclaimed the presenter, emphasizing Obregón's youth to add sordidness to the story. At the time, the actress was 21 and Epstein was 27. When Obregón appeared on set, she seemed bewildered by the repercussions of the news.How are you?"," Ónega asked him. And Obregón replied:Wow, girl! I'm blown away by all this!"She explained that she had become very nervous when she saw that she was being linked to..."a depraved person of that magnitude"And he lamented:"What makes me angry is always being in the middle of these thingsThe actress explained how they met and the nature of their relationship, describing Epstein as a good, generous, extremely polite, and very sweet man, a music lover.who played Chopin and played nocturnes"He took her in when her apartment burned down and invited her to the most exclusive parties in New York.

What is astonishing is the atmosphere of amusement, excitement, and gossip that was created around the program's table in the context of a pedophilia crime as serious as the grave. terrible, it stimulates a frivolity that demonstrates the extent to which the media anesthetizes the audience to horror. social polarization, parodying people's attitudes towards screens and reacting to televised debates. The central axis is a kind of polarization pandemic that spreads like the flu."I love fruit!"Of course, it's humor and it's advertising. But it's symptomatic how the narrative blames society for the polarization by appealing to the need to once again enjoy ourselves around a platter of ham, while, conversely, whitewashing and exonerating media and political actors."

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