Media executives, journalists, and political and academic personalities from more than 30 countries will attend the forum on January 21-22.

The date chosen coincides with the 65th anniversary of Operation Truth. This initiative gathered in Havana hundreds of foreign journalists invited by the revolutionary government to counteract the media campaign of the United States and its allies against the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

The film, produced by Prensa Latina Television, deals with the context in which Cuba’s response to media manipulation occurred. It focused on the trials and sanctions imposed by the revolutionary courts against the murderers and torturers of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship.

Prensa Latina, the first American challenge to the media hegemony of the big media monopolies, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, emerged in the heat of that event barely five months later.

Through the testimonies and arguments of authorized voices, including Prensa Latina journalist and founder, José Bodes Gómez, historians Eusebio Leal and Eduardo Torres Cuevas, and professor Hilda Saladrigas, the documentary depicts an event whose causes are still in force while providing guidelines for the search of new horizons.

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