The event’s program aims to discuss using content and digital platforms as tools for social mobilization, political participation, and power configuration.

During its opening ceremony on Monday, the meeting dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the multi-state TeleSUR channel, founded by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, was the scenario in which the channel’s president, Patricia Villegas, gave the lecture “How to establish a counter-hegemonic agenda with global impact; the TeleSUR case.”

Villegas urged counter-hegemonic media to work together in building an agenda and shared several keys from the 20 years of experience of the TV channel, for an agenda with global impact.

The event hosts theoretical workshops, exhibition fairs, and other lectures, and pays tribute to the Communication Faculty at the University of Havana for its 40th founding anniversary.

The day concluded with a tribute to the TeleSUR channel in Havana’s “El Avioncito” neighborhood.

This forum, sponsored by the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) and in partnership with the Havana-based Casa de las Americas and the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), has been held since 2022.

The International Colloquium “Patria” is named after the newspaper founded by Cuba’s National Hero, Jose Marti, in 1892 to spread libertarian ideas and unite the Cubans around the need for independence from the Spanish metropolis.

The Colloquium brings together nearly 400 national and foreign guests from 47 countries.

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