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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