Cuba, Colloquium Patria discusses how to debunk imperialist false narratives

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*Event’s 2nd day featured screening of “Soundtrack to a Coup D’état” documentary *Event focusses on need to jointly design common strategies *Only way to counter imperialist narrative is through collective action

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00:00During the second day of the 4th International Patriarch Colloquium, participants discussed

00:05the use of new technologies to rewrite the Global South's own stories.

00:10The day's agenda also included the screening of the 2024 Academy Award-nominated documentary

00:16A Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.

00:18Our correspondent in Havana Belén de los Santos with the details.

00:24Using new technologies to write our own stories, debunking false narratives that for centuries

00:29have imposed an imperialist view on the Global South.

00:32This is at the center of what is being discussed at the Patriarch Colloquium underway in Cuba.

00:37We are being told how to govern ourselves, our history is being changed and so on.

00:44And to be able to combat this, we need to work together, we need to network, we need

00:50to have a common understanding of the common enemy who is responsible for our underdevelopment,

00:57our poverty and our general misery.

01:00And that is why this colloquium is so, so very important.

01:05And in this struggle to write counter-demonic narratives, cultural artifacts take front

01:10stage.

01:11In this sense, one of the highlights of the second day of the event in Havana is the screening

01:16of the Academy Award-nominated documentary A Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, directed by

01:20Johan Riemann Press.

01:22A film that goes back to the 60s to retell episodes that US and European imperialism

01:27have tried to hush, such as the overthrow and assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

01:40It's not what the film focuses on, it's not sort of something of the past.

01:43Again, it's history, but history that's very much alive and it's something that should

01:47be talked about.

01:48And I think this forum is so much about this as well.

01:52For the over 400 participants to the event, the challenge is to come together to draw

01:56up common strategies that enable the sharing of these stories, of men and women that continue

02:01fighting to this day for a different world.

02:05We know the revolution won't be televised, but what's really important for us is that

02:10we're fighting for the revolution to be televised.

02:13To give that example of hope, you know, I'm from Britain and in Britain you don't hear

02:16much about socialist Cuba or Venezuela or the anti-imperialist struggles across the

02:21world, but we have to be using social media to massively kind of push out this information

02:27to build up an international anti-imperialist movement.

02:32With one day to go, the Patria Colloquium continues to bring together experiences from

02:36around the world, with the conviction that the only way to counter the unilateral narratives

02:42of imperialism is through collective action and internationalism.

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