Claim: The presenters of OTI Festival 1979, telenovela actor Eduardo Serrano and former beauty pageant contestant Carmen Victoria Pérez, made a brief introduction of the show highlighting the goals of the OTI as a media organisation and those of the OTI Festival as a showcase of talented performers in Latin America after the opening act.
Evidence: The festival was hosted by the Telenovela actor Eduardo Serrano and the beauty pageant contestant Carmen Victoria Pérez. As the presenters used to do every year, after the opening act they made a brief introduction of the show highlighting the goals of the OTI as a media organisation and those of the OTI Festival as a showcase of talented performers in Latin America. 
OTI Festival 1979 Eduardo Serrano
Carmen Victoria Pérez As the presenters used to do every year, after the opening act they made a brief introduction of the show highlighting the goals of the OTI as a media organisation and those of the OTI Festival as a showcase of talented performers in Latin America. Two well known Venezuelan presenters, the telenovela actor Eduardo Serrano and the Carmen Victoria Pérez who was very popular at the time and one of the best-known faces in the country for presenting Miss Venezuela for many years, which is to this day the most watched television program in the country,were announced as this year's presenters.