Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism issued Caracas Declaration
Caracas, March 31 ABN.- A called to the Heads of State of Latin America and the Caribbean to include the issue of Media terrorism in all the international meetings and forums made the members of the Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism through the Caracas Declaration, which was issued this Monday at press conference.
Following, the complete text of the Caracas Declaration.
Journalists, broadcasters and specialists in communications in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, met in Caracas for this First Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism, denounce the use of falsehoods on behalf of the informative transnational companies as a mass and permanent aggression against the people and governments which fight for peace, justice and inclusion.
Media terrorism is the main expression and needed condition of military and economic terrorism used by the industrialized North to impose its imperial hegemony and neocolonial dominance over Humanity. Thus, it is against freedom, democracy and the open society, and it should be considered as the plague of the contemporary culture.
Regionally, media terrorism is used as political arm for the overthrowing of democratic governments of countries like Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Panama, Grenada, Haiti, Peru, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela; it is used today in order to commit sabotage against any humanitarian agreement or political solution to the Colombian conflict and to regionalize the war in the Andean area.
The current democratic struggle in Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua, joint to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico, confirms the political will of our societies to throw out the aggressive and simultaneous smear campaign of the transnational media corporations and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). Cuba and Venezuela clearly represent the most vigorous milestones of this battle, yet unfinished. On the other hand, we are compelled to double our efforts before the dramatic situation that democratic journalism faces in Peru, Colombia and other nations.
This Latin American Meeting revealed the need of creating the International Platform against Media Terrorism, which calls for a new Meeting to be held on a term no longer to two months, to which will work jointly to other organizations as the Latin American Federation of Journalists (FELAP, for Spanish), which in the development of the conscience of the Latin American and Caribbean nations has exemplarily defended the right to the truth and the maxim upholding its principles: For a free journalism in free nations.
Determined in criminalizing all the forms of people struggle and resistance, under the guise of a fallacious idea of security, the fundamentalist administration of George W. Bush has been responsible for a systematic terrorist aggression during the recent years against alternative, people’s, communitarian and even some employer’s communication media.
Information is not merchandise. Just as health and education, information is a basic right of the people, and it should be subject of permanent public policies.
Convinced that this history began 200 years ago, we ratify the commitment of those who preceded us on it, in order to fit into an ethical practice of our profession, devoted to the values of real and effective democracy and to the truthfulness that the diversity of thought, beliefs and cultures deserve.
Not only the IAPA, but also gangs as Reporters Without Borders answer to the dictates from Washington on the falsification of reality and worldwide defamation. In this context, the European Union fulfills a shameful role which goes against the heroic struggle of its nations against nazi-fascism.
On the creation of the union of Latin American and Caribbean nations, the undersigning of this declaration call to teachers and students of communication to consider Media Terrorism as one of the major problems of the Humanity, we call for the free journalists to commit to double their efforts in the pursuit of peace, integral development and social justice.
In this spirit, we urge the Heads of States of Latin American and the Caribbean to include the issue of Media Terrorism in all international meetings and forums.
Translated by Felitza Nava
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