Honduras: teleSUR'S coverage of the 2009 coup d’état broadcasted its truth to the world

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teleSUR celebrates 20 years of being the voice of the people. In Honduras, its coverage of the 2009 coup d'état marked the collective memory, showing the truth when censorship tried to silence it.

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00:00TELESUR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF BEING THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

00:24IN HONDURAS, ITS COVERAGE OF THE 2009 CUDETA MARKED THE

00:27COLLECTIVE MEMORY, SHOWING THE TRUTH WHEN CENSORSHIP TRIED TO SILENCED IT.

00:32TELESUR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF ITS FOUNDATION BY RECALLING HISTORIC MOMENTS THAT MARKED

00:41ITS JOURNALISTIC WORK IN THE REGION. IN HONDURAS, ITS COVERAGE OF THE 2009 CUDETA

00:46WAS KEY TO MAKING THE DEMOCRATIC RUCTURE VISIBLE TO THE EYES OF THE WORLD.

00:50TELESUR PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE COVERAGE OF THE COUP, BECAUSE IT HELPED

00:59TO DISMANTLE THE NARRATIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL RIGHT-WING MEDIA THAT WANTED TO MAKE IT NOTE

01:04THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN HONDURAS WAS A CONSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION, AS THE HONDURAN COUP PERPESTRATORS MADE IT LOOK.

01:11THE COVERAGE OF TELESUR AND THE DENUNCIATION OF TELESUR WHEN THE HONDURAN MEDIA OF THE COUP WERE

01:16TRANSMITTING COMIC STRIPS WHILE THE PEOPLE WERE IN THE STREETS MASACRED, PERSECURED, TORTURED, REPRESSED.

01:22TELESUR WAS SENDING THOSE MESSAGES TO THE WORLD AND THAT COVERAGE BY TELESUR WAS WHAT MADE IT POSSIBLE

01:28TO DISMANTLE THE MEDIA NARRATIVE OF THE BIG INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE MEDIA THAT HAD TO ACCEPT THAT WHAT HAPPENED

01:34IN HONDURAS WAS A COUP.

01:40ON JUNE 28, 2009, TELESUR BROADCAST LIVED THE EXPULSION OF PRESIDENT MANUEL ZELIA AND THE MILITARIZATION OF TEGUE

01:51ZIGALPA WHEN MANY NATIONAL MEDIA WERE SILENT OUT OF FEAR OR PRESSURE.

01:55ITS CAMERAS SHOWED THE FIRST PROTESTS IN THE STREETS AND THE REPRESSION BY THE ARMED FORCES.

02:01TELESUR AT THAT TIME WAS THE ONE WHO ACCOMPANIED THE PEOPLE, WAS THE ONE WHO WENT ON THE MARCHES, WAS THE ONE WHO ALSO ENJURED THE

02:12TEARGAS BOMBS, JUST AS MANY OF US ENJURED THEM AT THE TIME.

02:16THEN THE ROLE THAT TELESUR TOOK THE BELLIGERANTS WAS KEY.

02:21IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. THE COUNTRY'S HEGEMONIC MEDIA WERE PAID TO MISINFORM THE PEOPLE.

02:27BUT TELESUR ALWAYS KEEPED UP. WAS THE ONE THAT WAS AT THE SIDE, NOT ONLY OF A GOVERNMENT THAT WAS GIVEN A COP,

02:35NOT ONLY AT THE SIDE OF A PERSON THAT WAS TAKEN OUT OF HIS COUNTRY IN PAJAMAS,

02:39BUT AT THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAD TAKEN TO THE STREETS ASKING FOR JUSTICE.

02:47DESPITE THE BLOCKING OF ITS SIGNAL IN HONDURAN TERRITORY, ITS JOURNALISTS CONTINUED TO REPORT FROM THE STREETS AND AIRPORTS,

02:57ACCOMPANYING THE PEOPLE IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR THE RETURN OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER.

03:01TELESUR WAS ONE OF THE FEW INTERNATIONAL MEDIA THAT REMAINED IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE MOST CRITICAL DAYS.

03:07VERY DIFFICULT, VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY WERE PERSEGUED IN THE COUNTRY.

03:16I MEAN, I REMEMBER, I DON'T REMEMBER HER NAME, THIS COMRADE, A GIRL WITH LIGHT EYES.

03:23I DON'T REMEMBER HER NAME. THAT COMRADE WENT OUT. SHE GAVE US THE INFORMATION AND RUN.

03:29SHE RUN BECAUSE SHE WAS PERSEGUEDED, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T ALLOW ACCESS TO TELESUR.

03:36THEY DIDN'T ALLOW TO REPORT. AND THE WORK DONE BY THE JOURNALISTS OF THIS MEDIA IN THE COUNTRY WAS DIFFICULT.

03:42THEY EXPOSED THEIR LIVES. THEY EXPOSED THEIR LIVES AND I THINK THAT THE WORLD RECOGNIZE THAT.

03:53REPRESION. THE REPRESION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MICHELETI AND AFTER THE REPRESION OF THE PERIOD OF THE NARCO DICTATORSHIP

04:04OF JUAN ORLANDO PEPELO, RIGHT? OF COURSE. IT HAS BEEN COURAGEOUS THE ACTIVITY OF THE JOURNALISTS

04:10WHO ARE MAKING AN EFFORT TO GIVE, I INSIST TO THE WORLD, A REAL VISION FROM THE HONDURAN PEOPLE SO THAT, WELL,

04:16SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD CAN HAVE A REAL VISION OF THE SITUATION.

04:22SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD CAN SOLIDARIZE WITH HONDURAS.

04:25TODAY, THE TELESUR CONMEMORA DOS DECADAS DE EXISTENCIA.

04:28TODAY, THE TELESUR COMMEMORATES TO DECADES OF EXISTENCE REAFIRMING ITS COMMITMENT TO THE TRUTH

04:33AND TO THE PEOPLE OF LATIN AMERICA. IN HONDURAS, ITS COVERAGE CONTINUES TO BE REMEMBERED

04:38AS A SYMBOL OF NEWS RESISTANCE IN THE FACE OF CENSORSHIP AND SILENCE IN POSED AFTER THE COUP.

04:44FOR THE TELESUR, DESDE TEGUSIGALPA, HONDURAS, CARIM DUARTE.

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