00:00The second day of the fourth international colloquium, Patria, concluded Tuesday in Havana,
00:05Cuba, with debates on the use of new technologies to rewrite the Global South's own stories.
00:10The day's agenda also included the screening of the 2024 Academy Award-nominated documentary
00:17Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Our correspondent in Havana, Belén de los Santos, with the details.
00:25Using new technologies to write our own stories, debunking false narratives that
00:29for centuries have imposed an imperialist view on the Global South. This is at the center of
00:34what is being discussed at the Patria colloquium underway in Cuba. We are being told how to govern
00:41ourselves, our history is being changed, and so on. And to be able to combat this,
00:47we need to work together, we need to network, we need to have a common understanding
00:52of the common enemy who is responsible for our underdevelopment, our poverty,
00:59and our general misery. And that is why this colloquium is so, so very important.
01:06And in this struggle to write counter-demonic narratives, cultural artifacts take front stage.
01:12In this sense, one of the highlights of the second day of the event in Havana
01:16is the screening of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat,
01:20directed by Johan Riemann Press. A film that goes back to the 60s to retell episodes that US and
01:27European imperialism have tried to hush, such as the overthrow and assassination of Congolese
01:32leader Patrice Lumumba. It's not what the film focuses on, it's not sort of something of the
01:44past. Again, it's history, but history is very much alive, and it's something that should be
01:48talked about. And I think this forum is so much about this as well. For the over 400 participants
01:54to the event, the challenge is to come together to draw up common strategies that enable the
01:59sharing of these stories, of men and women that continue fighting to this day for a different world.
02:06We know the revolution won't be televised, but what's really important for us is that
02:10we're fighting for the revolution to be televised. To give that example of hope,
02:15you know, I'm from Britain, and in Britain you don't hear much about socialist Cuba,
02:19or Venezuela, or the anti-imperialist struggles across the world. But we have to be using social
02:24media to massively kind of push out this information, to build up an international
02:30anti-imperialist movement. With one day to go, the Patria Colloquium continues to bring together
02:36experiences from around the world, with the conviction that the only way to counter the
02:41unilateral narratives of imperialism is through collective action and internationalism.
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