Venezuela: International Congress of Communication closes in Caracas

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The international congress of communication in Caracas, Venezuela, came to an end after two days of work. The congress has taken a number of important decisions. Details from our special envoy Yunus Soner

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

00:06The Congress has taken a number of important decisions.

00:09Details from our Special Envoy, Juno Zunar.

00:13Caracas, Venezuela continues to be a global center of the fight against fascism and imperialism.

00:19After three days of the World Festival of the Anti-Fascist International,

00:23on Monday finished the International Congress of Communication

00:26with an anti-fascist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist agenda.

00:31Its objective is to be part of constructing a new world.

00:35Our communication intended to recreate the narratives for changing the world,

00:43changing the subjectivities, the identities,

00:46changing the living people, creating the new states, the new utopias,

00:57the new forms to be people, to be humanity.

01:03More than 400 delegates from 100 countries came together for two days.

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

01:13In eight workshops they discussed ideas and proposals with concrete outcomes.

01:18We decided to make an executive secretary to work permanently,

01:24not just in Venezuela, also in each other country that is getting over here.

01:30A number of decisions were taken.

01:32Delegates agreed to establish the Hugo Chavez International People's Communication Award.

01:38The first grantee are the more than 100 Palestinian journalists

01:41who lost their lives in Israel's attacks.

01:47Imperialism's walls cannot be an obstacle against the communication and development

01:51of the peoples that love independence, peace and justice.

01:55This Congress is a beacon and a window for us.

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

02:06within the International University of Communication,

02:09an international team of researchers and the plan of action for the creation of media content.

02:14Media institutions will consolidate their relations

02:17within what delegates call the network of the networks, globally.

02:21As you know, Islamic resistance comes from other nature,

02:26Latin American socialism, the other one.

02:30But when these people that actually are trying hard to fight against imperialism

02:40come under or unite themselves under a unique flag of...

02:45Several speakers spoke about coordinating the effort with China and Russia.

02:49Delegates from the latter have already ideas.

02:52Russia has its own experience to struggle with fake news

02:57and on political level, on society level,

03:00we can propose a project of laws for any countries how to work with fake news.

03:09In her closing remarks, Director of the International University of Communications, Tania Dias,

03:14said the Congress was a step further to complete Simon Bolivar's dream.

03:18In communications, the Liberators' vision is now beginning to embrace the entire world.

03:24Yunus Soner, TELESUR, Caracas, Venezuela

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