The meeting brought together some 350 representatives from 170 organizations, news groups, think tanks, companies and other institutions from more than 70 countries, including the Latin American Information Agency Prensa Latina.

Under the main theme of “Development and Revitalization: A new journey to the Global South”, the meeting focused on promoting the system of universal governance, so that it advances in a more just and reasonable direction.

Participants in the forum agreed that harmonious coexistence and mutual learning among different civilizations are important driving forces for the progress of humanity.

They also considered that the media and think tanks of the Global South should advocate respect for diversity, demand the promotion of exchanges and dialogues, and foster development.

During the second and last day, several ideas and proposals were presented and shared on the use of local currencies in cooperation and trade relations among countries in the aforementioned geopolitical bloc.

Yesterday, Prensa Latina urged new alliances, seeking to further amplify messages.

Let’s make this a memorable opportunity, oriented towards permanent action from each place or responsibility that we occupy, in pursuit of informative stories closer to our realities, inclusive and humanistic, said Martha Isabel Andrés, editor in chief of the agency founded on June 16, 1959.

Speaking to the event organized by Xinhua and the Brazilian Communications Company, Andrés recalled the challenges that Prensa Latina has faced in surviving for more than six and a half decades, in the face of an array of obstacles.

There have been many changes in the international media landscape, but our main objective has remained unchanged: to inform with an alternative message, different from that of the major Western media, and to tell the stories of the peoples and countries whose voices are not usually heard, she stressed.

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