Our Federation of Mexican Journalist Associations and the National College of Licensed Journalists will be represented at this historical-cultural-political meeting by Dr. Eva Joaquina Guerrero, president of our organization, and her assistant, Dr. José Arturo Aguirre, president of the Committee of Supervision, Honor, and Justice.

The José Martí International Institute of Journalism is convening the Symposium on Political and Media Confrontation in Latin America and the Caribbean 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine, from October 18 to 20, at which participants will analyze the political, legal, and media resources that are intertwined in an increasingly complex confrontation.

The United States has never ceased to see Latin America and the Caribbean as a territory in dispute with other powers.

James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, stated it two centuries ago, with the doctrine that he summarized in the phrase “America for Americans.”

When the Monroe Doctrine seemed to be a thing of the past, the Donald Trump administration reinstated it before the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, and his successor, Joseph Biden, does not seem to change it.

This interpretation of history, in which the will, rights, and dreams of Latin Americans and Caribbeans do not count, inevitably points to the political confrontation between leftist, progressive, and popular forces and rightist forces led by neoliberal currents.

Journalists specialized in regional geopolitics, media scholars, researchers on political, social, and economic relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, and analysts of US policies in the region will present papers and participate in debates during the three-day symposium.

Conceived as part of the week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the José Martí International Institute of Journalism, the symposium will be preceded by pre-symposium workshops on October 16 and 17 and an Alumni Reunion on October 17.

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