BRAZILIAN CONVENTION CONDEMNS MEDIA CAMPAIGN AGAINST CUBA\
http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/v3/read.php?id=195319Participants at the XX National Convention of Solidarity with Cuba, held here, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, condemned the constant media campaign against Cuba.

The rejection of counter-revolutionary propaganda, which seeks to distort and lie about the Cuban reality was the focus of the panel discussion in the international media campaign against Cuba, with the participation of Brazilian journalists and academics and political counselor of the Embassy of Cuba in Brazil, Rafael Hidalgo.

The journalist and editor of Portal Vermelho, Jose Reinaldo Carvalho said that "the press linked to imperialism and the big monopoly groups always supported the U.S. blockade against Cuba" and had broadcast a distorted view on Cuba, to imply that chaos reigns.

He denounced that in this work, the great media transform criminals into heroes, finance them and internationally award bloggers, fake journalists and subversive organizations.

Carvalho said that "U.S. imperialism extended its blockade to Cuba to the Internet area, making difficult for this country to access broadband". 

He asserted its urgent counteraction to such media offensive, and made a call on those present to share the resolutions of the World Brigade against Media Terrorism, held in Havana in November 2011.

Meanwhile, journalist Carlos Alberto Almeida, director of Telesur in Brazil said that the press mutes the successes of the Cuban Revolution in the areas of health and solidarity actions developed by Cuba in various countries, and mentioned as examples Haiti and Timor Leste.

Stressing that the multinational channel Telesur is a station for journalism that seeks for integration, Almeida asked the twentieth convention join efforts to ensure that the Brazilian government establishes an agreement to secure the transmission of that television channel in Brazil.

The coordinator of the National Front for the Democratization of Communication and Media director of the Workers' Union ratified the commitment of the two entities with the movement in support to Cuba in the fight against the media siege.

Despite this, they have failed to achieve their goal in the destruction of the Cuban Revolution, which makes a calm, firm and clear effort to consolidate a process that shows that socialism can be effective, democratic and insuperable.

The twentieth meeting in solidarity with Cuba in Brazil continues this Saturday with the working group and will conclude on Sunday with a march along the beaches of Salvador to demand the release of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino unjustly held in U.S. prison in 1998.