The Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) showed its support to the Caracas-based Latin American network Telesur through a message "of solidarity and respect" circulated here today. Less than a year ago, UPEC gave Telesur the Dignity Award in recognition of the professionalism, ethics, decorum and defense of just causes and truth that characterizes its staff.
The Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) showed its support to the Caracas-based Latin American network Telesur through a message "of solidarity and respect" circulated here today. Less than a year ago, UPEC gave Telesur the Dignity Award in recognition of the professionalism, ethics, decorum and defense of just causes and truth that characterizes its staff.
In its message, the national presidency of UPEC says that just a few times the name of a media organization has told so much with such a few letters: Telesur.
The message adds that never before, a modern and efficient television network of universal dimension had boasted about emerging and working from and for the people in the South of the world.
Never until its foundation in 2005, a television network had boasted about painting the map of the Americas upside down and declared with emphasis that "our North is the South" to orient its audience, says the text.
According to UPEC, since the inception of Prensa Latina, no other Latin American media organization had managed to instal itself in the exclusive universe of media corporations, with such a great prestige and high people's demand like Telesur.
In its message, UPEC notes that, like the "legendaty" agency Prensa Latina, the new television network has been a victim of media attacks, blockings to the distribution of its services, the campaigns to silence it, the boycott attampts and even the threats and terrorits aggressions.
However, its producers have faced everything, giving authenticity and diversity to the collective voice of Latin America, says the text.
Telesur has made reality the dream of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and the late leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, of having a large television network of the South that is the face and the voice of the people that were silenced, neglected and excluded from information screens.
It has taught us who we are, how we are like and what keeps us together, says UPEC, describing the network as essential to the Latin American peoples.
This in the name of democracy, freedom of speech, balance and the human right to be informed with truth. Any attempt to silence it is a crime against freedom, concludes the message.
On March 27, the Government of Mauricio Macri made official Argentina's break with the Latin American television network, an option that used to be valid to millions of residents in that country.
The measure sparked criticism and reservations from broad ideological and cultural spectrum that labled it as undemocratic.
Source: PL