In Cuba, the communication victories of Venezuela and Mexico are highlighted (+ Photos and video)

Havana, July 16 (Prensa Latina) French-Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet describes here today the victories in the field of communication, the electoral triumphs of Presidents Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico.

The re-election of Maduro and the election of López Obrador reflect the progress of the progressive and left-wing Latin American forces in a front as important as the media scenarios, he told Prensa Latina at the XXIV. Sao Paulo Forum Meeting.

Similarly, Ramonet wished the same thing in Brazil, since polls indicate that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to be the favorite candidate of voters for the October 7 elections, although he has been imprisoned for more than 100 days. According to the professor, if we take stock of what has happened in recent months in Latin America from the point of view of communicational confrontation, the result is not negative despite the fact that The importance of challenges to improve this task.

Fidel Castro (1926-2016), historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, said that the problem is not that they are trying to impose their reading of a situation, but rather how we hegemonize our own speech, he added.

Ramonet recalled that Venezuelan politician Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) was one of the first left-wing leaders to join the Twitter social network

. South was created by the Bolivarian government to try to compensate for the influence of networks such as CNN in Spanish and offer a different view of reality, often distorted by some media. Opened the previous day at the Havana Convention Center, the Sao Paulo Forum stands out as an area of ​​convergence, debate and joint action born of the meeting of political parties and organizations from the left of the city. Latin America and the Caribbean in 1990.

Returning to Havana after the editions of 1993 and 2001, the meeting aims to promote the unity of the left and progressive forces in Latin America before an international scenario complex, marked by the return of right-wing governments in the region and the resurgence of US hegemonic policies. wmr / clp