The Latin American Union of News Agencies (ULAN), consisting of nine countries of the region, held a meeting here yesterday to discuss the democratisation of information and the strengthening of this network.The meeting brings together directors and representatives of news agencies in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala and Bolivia and was inaugurated by the Bolivian Minister of Communication, Amanda Davila.Davila said that the ULAN aims to promote joint policies to boost the democratisation of information."The forum will discuss the way forward for the state news agencies, its challenges and how to strengthen the organisation that emerged in 2010," she said.Davila said that the major challenge for ULAN is to reflect on a threat to governments by "soft coups" faced by Latin American countries with revolutionary political processes.The new coups "are different, they have to do with parliamentary coups as the case of Paraguay and the stage of permanent destabilisation" that are reported by some media, she added.According to Davila, the media in recent years has become "a kind of spokesman" to deal with participatory democratic revolutionary processes.ULAN Vice President and Director of the Venezuelan News Agency (VNA), Freddy Fernandez emphasised that the entity consolidates the integration of news agencies in the region.The director of the agency Telam, Argentina, Juan Manuel Fonrouge, agreed that the goal of ULAN is to strengthen the democratisation of information.The director of the Bolivian Information Agency (ABI), Jorge Cuba, said the ULAN "is an unprecedented endeavour to break the media siege so that the general public and beneficiaries can understand what is happening and can match their actions with the economic policy of their countries."
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