Latin American Meeting proposes to create an International Platform against Media Terrorism

  Caracas, Mar 31. ABN.- The Latin American Meeting, carried out in Caracas from March 27 to 30, concluded that it is a necessity to create an International Platform against Media Terrorism.

In this sense, the Declaration of Caracas, final document of the event that gathered journalists and intellectuals from 14 different countries, calls for a new Meeting to take place in less than two months in a country that has not been decided yet.

To that end, organizers of the Latin American Meeting will work in joint with other organizations, like the Latin American Journalists Federation (FELAP, Spanish acronym), that “it has defended outstandingly the right to the truth and the its slogan: For a free journalism exercise in free
countries; thus, helping to awake the conscience of Latin American and Caribbean people”.

The Declaration of Caracas was made known this Monday in a press conference from the ALBA Caracas Hotel with the Minister of the People’s Power for Communication and Information, Andrés Izarra, and the Director of the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN), Freddy Fernández, which was the host of the event.

Furthermore, in the Declaration, the attendants linked to the journalism in Latin America, Caribbean, and Canada, denounced the use of falsification methods by the mass media transnationals as a massive and permanent aggression against the people and governments that fight for peace, justice, and inclusion.

“Media terrorism is the first expression and the necessary condition for the military and economic terrorism carried out by the industrialized North in order to impose its imperial hegemony and its neo-colonial control to Humanity”, the Declaration reads.

Moreover, it adds that, as it is, “is an enemy of the freedom, democracy, and open societies and should be considered as the pest of the contemporaneous culture”.

In addition, it stresses that, regionally, “the media terrorism used as a political weapon to overthrow democratic governments of countries such as: Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Panama, Grenada, Haiti, Peru, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela, is being used to sabotage any humanitarian agreement or political solution for the Colombian conflict, as well as expanding the war to the Andean area”.

The attendants to the event, from 14 countries of the Continent, included as well that the current democratic fight in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, in joint with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico “reassures the political will of our societies to wreck the aggressive and simultaneous distorting campaign of the mass media transnationals and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA)”.

“Cuba and Venezuela represent the most vigorous milestones in this still unfinished battle”, the Declaration states, and it adds: “we are obliged to redouble our efforts due to the dramatic situation that is currently taking place with the democratic journalism in Peru, Colombia, and other countries”.

The Declaration also makes reference to the Administration of the United States’ President, George W. Bush, “which insists on criminalizing any kind of people’s fight or resistance, under the pretext of a treacherous notion of administration’s security”.

In this sense, the document points out that Bush’s Administration “has been responsible for the systematic terrorist aggression last years against alternative, people’s, communitarian, and even some privates media”.

“Presenting the information as a fundamental right and not as a merchandise is a fundamental right of the peoples and it should be part of permanent public policies”.

Furthermore, it ratifies the commitment “of those who preceded us, in order to adjust ourselves to an ethic exercise of our profession, devoted to the values of a real and effective democracy and to the truthfulness thoughts, beliefs, and cultures diversity deserve”.

“It is not only the IAPA, but also gangs like Reporters without Borders, follow Washington’s orders falsifying the reality and worldwide distortion. In this context, the European Union plays a shameful rol contradicting the
heroic struggles of its people against the Nazi-fascism”.

The attendants to the Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism made a call to journalism professors and students to consider the Media Terrorism as one of the core problems of Humanity.

Moreover, they call free journalists to commit themselves to redouble their efforts in the pursuit of peace, integral development, and social justice. Thus, they made also a call to the Presidents of Latin America and the Caribbean to include media terrorism in international meetings and forums   Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Agencia Bolivariana, Simon Bolivar Studie Center, Dagens Chavez, hands off venezuela, venezuela nalysis, Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, BusVenezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA,Bush, preventivt krig, Imperiet, Imperio, Empire. Media gerrilla,