The El Maestro and Dignity Awards to Telesur and Al Mayadeen -respectively-, two great platforms that, in their efforts to give voice to the unprotected, have followed the path of truth and justice, distinguished yesterday the closing day of the 3rd International Colloquium Patria.
After three days of debate on how the global South can break the chains that oppress it through alternative communication, the Union of Journalists of Cuba also decided to award the Felix Elmuza medal to the president of Telesur, Patricia Villegas, for "her unquestionable merits as a journalist and leader of a project that has more than fulfilled the dreams of its creators in the service of the emancipation of the peoples".
In presenting the declaration of the event and its projections, its general director, Rosa Miriam Elizalde, mentioned the conviction that the practice and political articulation of the present are going through a process of accelerated transformation that makes it necessary to adapt the communicational tools.
One of the necessary conditions to advance along this path, she added, is to abandon the instrumental view of technologies and conceive them as part of the political space.
For this reason, he said that it is unavoidable to promote a permanent space of articulation, training, development of shared technologies and communication, "that will provide us with adequate tools to stop the advance of the new right wing in Our America and in the world".
The condemnation of the genocide of the Palestinian people and the US blockade of Cuba closed the speech.
