00:00We now go live to Caracas with our special envoy Yunus Ă–ner for all the latest of what is happening in this International Communication Congress.
00:07Hello Yunus, welcome again to From the South.
00:15Hello Luis, hello to our audience, hello, a warm welcome from here, the city of Caracas,
00:21the International University of Communication, actually where the Third International Congress of Communication is taking place.
00:30The workshops have finished their work yesterday and today, in the morning, they have presented the results of their own works.
00:41Eight different workshops have gathered on topics so different as artificial intelligence, cultural sovereignty, networking, gender issues, generations and communication.
00:54They all worked separately in different parts of the university and today, in the morning, they presented their results.
01:02And my guest is a colleague of mine, Carmen Cecilia Lara, she was one of the participants in the workshops.
01:15Welcome Cecilia, thank you for taking the time.
01:19How is your general impression of the Congress to begin with?
01:24Well, my impression is wonderful, because we are a blockade country without too much resource, without less resource,
01:34and we could invite more than 1,000 persons for the transmission of the power to our president, Maduro,
01:46and at the same time, we are in this wonderful Congress, Third Congress of International Communication,
01:53and we have gained results very, very interesting.
01:59For example, I was in the second table, we call it table, I don't know in English, mesa in Spanish,
02:10and we conclude that it is needed to make a platform in the BRICS, because we are isolated, you know,
02:20the progressive countries have like Telesur in America, in Latin America,
02:28but we need to unite Telesur with other platforms in other countries, in other continents,
02:38that could, one just platform, that Putin, the Russian president, talked about this idea in the last BRICS meeting.
02:55Thank you very much. I would like to ask another question.
02:58Where do you see, you mentioned BRICS, where do you see the geopolitical importance of this Congress?
03:05Where do you locate it in the global landscape generally?
03:09Well, it's amazing to see too many countries in this Congress,
03:16because here we can find people from all the countries in the world, from the five continents.
03:26So, the geopolitical importance is that Venezuela, again, is a light in the world.
03:37Just a few days before that Trump is going to get the president, you know, formally.
03:47So, this Congress is a support for us in Venezuela, I am from Venezuela, a big support.
03:55And at the same time, we have a lot of new ideas for communication.
04:02So, this is a very important result for the world, for the democracy in the world,
04:10for the rights, you know, for the truth, mostly for the truth.
04:15So, I am very grateful for you, that are from Turkey, to be, I don't know how to say in English,
04:25a medium for, you know, the transmission of the truth.
04:32Thank you very much. As you see, we have an audience as Telesur, who is actively taking our channel by heart.
04:40And when she attends an international Congress of communication, she thinks about Telesur too.
04:46Leaving that aside, very important point that she emphasized, or my colleague emphasized,
04:52is that this Congress has an important place in the changing, geopolitically changing world.
04:59And we spoke to other participants, remember there are 100 countries represented here in this Congress.
05:06And, for instance, we spoke to those delegates that came from Russia,
05:10who said that their country was prepared and ready to contribute to this Congress after it finishes.
05:18And here, in that context, it's worth underlining once again, that among the decisions taken,
05:24is to establish an executive secretary that will continue the work of the Congress after it's finished today,
05:31permanently to establish an international network of communication and experts, starting from tomorrow on.
05:40That's for the time being what we can tell from here, Caracas, the International University of Communication,
05:46where the Congress is still continuing, and we expect it's closure in the afternoon. You have the word.
05:53Thank you, Junius, for all the detailed information, and to your guest as well, for her time seen from the south of Telesur English.
