Organized by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) and the Simón Bolívar Institute, communicators from Latin America and the Caribbean, the event opted to achieve greater cohesion in collaboration, training, and management of social networks.

Prensa Latina ratified its support to work together in an articulated manner, seeking to address media campaigns and fake news directed at the people of America.

The editor-in-chief of the Specialized Editorial department, Maylín Vidal, expressed that they can always count on Prensa Latina, and called on the media representatives present to join the newly created Voices of the Global South platform, founded last January during the New Operation Truth International Conference, in which current journalistic works, sent by colleagues from various continents, converged.

Vidal emphasized the need to work together within diversity and hailed her colleagues from the Argentine agency Télam, who are protesting against President Javier Milei’s decision to close the media outlet, which has almost 80 years of history.

The event emphasized the pressing need to articulate a common agenda with issues at hand such as the upcoming elections in Venezuela or Israel’s massacre against Palestine. The participants also delved into the need for regional unity to face the global challenges that this new era demands.

Several representatives of alternative media outlets and communicators from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Chile, among others, participated in the meeting.

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