Venezuela, International Congress of Communication closes in Caracas

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*Over 400 delegates from 100 counties attended the International Congress of Communication *1st “Hugo Chavez International People's Communication Award” to be granted to martyred Palestinians journalists *Media institutions vowed to consolidate relations through the creation of a “network of networks” *The event served to plan coordinate international efforts in the communications area *International Congress of Communication marked a step forward in uniting the Global South

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00:00The International Congress of Communications in Caracas came to an end after two days of work.

00:05Congress has taken a number of important decisions. Details from a special envoy, Junot Soner.

00:12Caracas, Venezuela continues to be a global center of the fight against fascism and imperialism.

00:18After three days of the World Festival of the Anti-Fascist International,

00:22on Monday finished the International Congress of Communication

00:25with an anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist agenda.

00:30Its objective is to be part of constructing a new world.

00:34Our communication intended to recreate the narratives for changing the world,

00:42changing the subjectivities, the identities, changing the living people,

00:49with creating the new states, the new utopias, the new forms to be people, to be humanity.

01:02More than 400 delegates from 100 countries came together for two days. Their battlefield,

01:07communication, networks and the so-called social media owned by western corporations.

01:12In eight workshops they discussed ideas and proposals with concrete outcomes.

01:17We decided to make an executive secretary to work permanently, not just in Venezuela,

01:24also in each other country that is getting over here.

01:30A number of decisions were taken. Delegates agreed to establish the Hugo Chavez International

01:34People's Communication Award. The first grantee are the more than 100 Palestinian journalists

01:40who lost their lives in Israel's attacks.

01:43Imperialism's walls cannot be an obstacle against the communication and development

01:50of the peoples that love independence, peace and justice.

01:54This congress is a beacon and a window for us.

02:01Creating the network of the networks established was a permanent secretariat within the

02:05International University of Communication, an international team of researchers and the plan

02:10of action for the creation of media content. Media institutions will consolidate their

02:15relations within what delegates call the network of the networks, globally.

02:20As you know, Islamic resistance comes from other nature, Latin American socialism, the

02:28other one. But when these people that actually are trying hard to fight against imperialism

02:39come under or unite themselves under a unique flag of...

02:44Several speakers spoke about coordinating the effort with China and Russia. Delegates

02:49from the latter have already ideas.

02:51Russia has his own experience to struggle with fake news. On political level, on society

02:59level, we can propose a project of laws for any countries how to work with fake news.

03:08In her closing remarks, the rector of the International University of Communications,

03:12Tania Dias, said the congress was a step further to complete Simon Bolivar's dream.

03:17In communications, the liberator's vision is now beginning to embrace the entire world.

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