The New Operation Truth International Conference, which ends today in this capital, becomes a tribune from where the rights of the peoples who resist are defended, acknowledged its participants.
The event brings together dozens of information professionals from some thirty countries who advocate counter-hegemonic communicative models, capable of giving visibility to the historically subjugated majorities. During the first of its sessions, held the day before at the Royalton Havana Hotel, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel considered excellent the celebration of the event that commemorates the 65th Anniversary of the days that in January 1959 spread the reality of the nascent Cuban Revolution.
"It is important and significant for several reasons: it takes up again a memorable episode of the Revolution; it is convened and carried out by the prestigious Prensa Latina Agency, which was born in the heat of that operation; and because it is being held again in Havana, which has been hosting Operation Truth for 65 years," he said.
He remarked that wherever there is an alternative communication project against hegemony, there is an operation truth, and, at this point, he highlighted the importance of these efforts to expose the damages of the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, and also to denounce other punitive policies such as the inclusion of the island in a list that qualifies it as a sponsor of terrorism.
This, he said, is an element of blackmail on governments and peoples invented by the empire in order not to lose its hegemony, today in bankruptcy.
Finally, he highlighted the courage of the journalists who are currently working in Palestine, and who inform the world about the excesses of the Israeli army against the Gazan people.
On this subject, the president of the Board of Directors of the Al-Mayadeen Information Network, Ghassan Ben Jeddou, expressed that humanity is living one of the hardest battles for liberation in the face of injustice, racism and brutal occupation.
Through a video message, he warned that despite the fact that it is a great tragedy without precedent, there are many opinion matrixes that try to justify the extermination of a defenseless people.
In the midst of a convulsive context, the president of Prensa Latina news agency, Luis Enrique Gonzalez, explained that this conference convenes an exchange on world journalism.
Aware of the increased risks that may arise from the misuse of digital social networks and Artificial Intelligence, he remarked, we are called to avoid and counteract it from our daily work, from a worthy journalistic exercise.
Let us make this a memorable opportunity, oriented to permanent action from every place or responsibility we occupy, in pursuit of information that increasingly resembles the reality we live, that is more inclusive, humanistic and not limited to monopolies, said Gonzalez.
He recalled how, three months after Operation Truth, Prensa Latina was born, the first and most important alternative media in the region until today.
"The value of Prensa Latina is inextricably linked to the need to speak with its own voice, as a pioneer and school of the struggle from the Global South against disinformation, manipulation and fake news," he said.