TeleSUR correspondent Bruno Falci is at the Teresa Careño Theater in Caracas, Venezuela on the occasion of the artistic gala that TeleSUR is hosting this Wednesday to celebrate its 20th anniversary. teleSUR
00:00Goodbye, let's go now live to Teresa Carreño Theatre, where an artistic gala is taking place in homage to the 20 years of Telesur, 20 years offering, giving voice to the peoples of the Global South, a gala, an artistic gala that is also including various groups, also authorities, the executive vice president of Venezuela is present at this celebration.
00:27Also cultural figures from Cuba, from Brazil, Bolivia as well, including also important cultural figures of Cuba like Bien Sai Valdez, Cuba's prima ballerina and general director of the National Ballet of Cuba.
00:44This artistic gala is also featured in the national system of youth, also children's orchestras and chorus of Venezuela.
00:54The event, which is also directed by Rolando Almirante, a Cuban artist-producer, is attended by ministers of culture from Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas, also the president of Telesur, Patricia Villegas, is present.
01:12And also, in addition to celebrating this 20th anniversary of our multi-platform Telesur, this is also a space to embrace the people Sumit for peace and against war.
01:27And also, in addition to the future of our multi-platform Telesur, this is also a space for peace and against war, this is also a space for peace and against war, this is also a space for peace and against war.
01:57This is also a space for peace and against war.
02:15We are live at this hour as Venezuela, the Municipal Theatre of Caracas,
02:45and we are witnessing a celebration, a homage to the 20 years of uninterrupted transmissions
02:53that Venezuela is fulfilling ever since its foundation on July 24th, 20 years ago,
03:05at the initiative also of Commander Hugo Chavez that had the intention of creating a multimedia
03:12that would reflect from a progressive perspective and also from a leftist perspective
03:19the struggles of the peoples of America, the just causes of the world,
03:24an alternative to the hegemonic view of Western powers.
03:28This is the main mission that Venezuela has been portraying and has been fulfilling
03:35according to the legacy, according to the plans of Commander Hugo Chavez and also as a live
03:43presence of the commander as well.
03:47And this is a cultural moment, a moment of joy, of celebration, of many years of struggle,
03:55of many years of being on the side of the truth of the peoples of Latin America and the world
04:02as well, of being also on the side of the just causes of the world, for example,
04:09like condemning in all of our platforms, the genocide that is being committed against the
04:15people of Palestine by the Zionist regime of Israel.
04:18This is a moment of unity from Latin America and side from our perspective as well.
04:27Let's recall that TELESUR is also a Latin American multimedia of social vocation that is oriented
04:35to lead, to promote the processes of union of the peoples of the South.
04:40It is a space, it is a voice for the construction of a new communicational order under also the
04:50jurisdiction, a little bit of history, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Popular Power
04:56for Communication and Information of Venezuela, the channel began broadcasting precisely on
05:02July 24th, 2005 from this very same spot that today is having and is bringing space to this
05:12celebration from the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, capital of Venezuela.
