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The Battle of Information in Latin America.

By Nestor Nuñez
Cuba, 9 June 2011.- The United States is a monopolizing entity par excellence. Throughout their history they have done nothing but to attempt controlling, restricting, and centralizing everything as a method to establish a global autocratic and absolutist power. 
 
By means of the implementation of the fierce media power, they aim at controlling what people see, hear and read, within different domains in several spheres.
 
It is not a fantasy. The imperial circles of power, and specially the U.S. at the top of them, are in control of almost 90 per cent of the main and most influential sources of information worldwide.
 
The majority of Internet central servers are based in the U.S., a country that has flooded the planet with radio and television broadcasts, many of which convey aggressive propaganda against “annoying” and “undesirable” nations and governments. Thus, they have spread the consumerist and spendthrift model of its society as a universal paradigm.
 
Taking into account this restricting view, it is necessary for the more than five billion people that seemed not to exist, think, create, and fight in this world to find a way to expose their problems and needs and to face this giant that is trying to crush them down and make them live as simple ghosts.
 
Precisely within this context and in the midst of this battle, a considerable group of Latin American news entities met during these days in Caracas to create an Association of Latin American News Agencies with the purpose of “gradually becoming a powerful means of expression in the region, to report, ourselves, on our daily life”.
 
In few words, this is an attempt to establishing “a new paradigm of information and communication”, which already includes nine nations, and expanding those that previously existed in order to break the monopoly over the mainstream media by this big power and its local followers.
 
The Cuban Prensa Latina news agency took part in meeting for the creation of the Association of Latin American News Agencies. Prensa Latina was founded right after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution as one of the first regional efforts to give voice to those that have been kept away from the right to inform and to be informed truthfully on the national and international reality.
 
Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Brazil also joined this initiative that follows the endeavors of the multinational television channel TeleSur.
 
There are still huge challenges so as to hold back and take down the wall of lies and distortion created by the powerful for decades, but this undertaking is worth the risk and is destined to move forward.  
 
As it has been said, people can be deceived for a while, even for along time, but not forever, unashamedly and disrespectfully. (Cubaminrex-Agencia Cubana de Noticias)

 

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