At the headquarters of the UNHCR, the Cuban Association of the United Nations, in Havana, World Television Day was celebrated, which was decreed by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1996, and this year was dedicated to recognize the informative work of the multinational TeleSur chain.

The act began with the placing of offerings in the busts of five Foreign Ministers of the Dignity of Our America, among them the Venezuelan Ignacio Luis Arcaya, who was dismissed by President Romulo Betancourt because he took the side of Cuba in the VI Confencia de Foreign Ministers of the OAS, held on August 16, 1960 in San José, Costa Rica.

The offering before the bust of Arcaya was placed by the journalist Fabiola Lopez, head of the TeleSur correspondent in Cuba, and by Fermín Quiñones, President of the ACNU.

In front of the busts of the Foreign Ministers Raul Roa, of Cuba, Guillermo Toriello, of Guatemala, Raúl Porras, of Peru and Manuel Tello of Mexico, placed offerings Waldo Ramírez, vice president of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television; Maruja Calvo, founder of Cuban television; Gabriel Navarrete, President of the Spanish Culture and International Cooperation Association; and Cuban engineer Enrique Gay Calvó, also founder of Cuban television.

Fermin Quiñones recognized at the event the important role that the multinational TeleSur plays in Latin America and the rest of the world, while Fabiola Lopez, recalling the interview that the president of Cuba, engineer Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez recently offered to that important medium of communication, said that in the creation of TeleSur there were present two great of Our America, the Venezuelan Hugo Chávez and the Cuban Fidel Castro.

The first transmission of TeleSur was made thirteen years ago from the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, and the members of its Advisory Council included the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Argentina Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the prominent Spanish-French journalist Ignacio Ramonet.

Waldo Ramirez, who was one of the first professionals of Cuban television who collaborated for several years in Venezuela with TeleSur, highlighted the selfless and efficient work of the multinational team accredited in Havana, as well as the participation of other correspondents in the world. .

The event was also attended by the journalist Bartolomé Sancho Morey, President of Honor of the House of Friendship with Cuba of the Balearic Islands, the economist Andres Soto, a great admirer of the work of TeleSur, who 60 years ago was the one who recorded in his home in Havana the historic dialogue between the guerrilla commanders Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Che Guevara.

The journalist Pedro Martínez Pírez, President of the Press Commission of the ACNU, also paid tribute to the ambassador of Venezuela recently deceased in Havana, and who said is also a Chancellor of the Dignity of Our America.

Maria Salome Campanioni
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