The book celebrates the 65 years of the agency and of the Operation Truth
Havana, January 5 (RHC) The Latin American Information Agency Prensa Latina will present a book dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Operation Truth, a massive press conference offered by Fidel Castro to denounce the United States media attacks against the nascent Cuban Revolution.
The volume, titled Prensa Latina, Voz del Sur Global (Prensa Latina, Voice of the Global South), also celebrates the 65 years of that news agency, founded five months later as a product of that journalistic event that brought together some 400 professionals in Havana on January 21 and 22, 1959.
On the occasion of both anniversaries, the agency convened a New International Forum for those same days of this year, with the participation of ministers, media executives, journalists and personalities from several countries.
The book collects extensive information related to Operation Truth, its protagonists and the demand to create a voice of Latin America and the Caribbean in an information scenario dominated by large foreign journalistic monopolies.
It also highlights the participation of Latin American journalists in the founding of Prensa Latina, among them the Colombian Nobel Prize winners Gabriel García Márquez and the Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias, as well as its first director, the Argentinian Jorge Ricardo Masetti.
With about 80 pages, the text is the result of the contribution of more than a dozen journalists and technicians, and contains about 40 photographs of important events covered by the medium in more than six decades of work.
Likewise, it deals with the various work directions of the agency, from information and audiovisual, through radio and television work, social networks and the internet, photography and the production of more than 15 newspapers and magazines.
Prensa Latina is currently the main multimedia outlet in Cuba, with a daily news service of some 400 stories in seven languages and is one of the island's most consulted portals on the Internet.
According to its president, Luis Enrique González, the agency survived the most diverse attacks in 65 years and became an essential reference for those who oppose it and for those who defend objective multilateralism in international communication against fake news. (Source: PL)
