The Media and Other Blockades: The U.S. Siege on Venezuela and Cuba

A conversation in Spanish with Alina Duarte

With the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the recent U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and the current blockade on Cuba, several Latin American countries have entered a new stage of threats to their sovereignty. In this context of vulnerability, the dearth of non-diasporic Latin American perspectives on the news we consume becomes increasingly problematic. 

In this webinar conversation with Prof. González Zenteno, journalist Alina Duarte will offer this counterflow of information. Alina will contextualize terms used on the press such as “capture” versus “kidnapping;” “dictatorship” versus “Bolivarian Republic;” “capitalism” versus “communalism;” “incursion” versus “invasion;” “to seize” versus “to steal;” “regime” versus “government” or “leadership;” and “sovereignty” versus “nationalism.”

There will be an opportunity to post your questions to Alina.

Alina Duarte is an international journalist with a working class, feminist, anticolonial, antifascist, and antiimperialist perspective . 

She has degrees in International Relations from National Autnonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and in Political Education from Ecuador Foreign Relations Ministry’s Escuela de Formación Política del Buen Vivir. 

She has worked as a journalist with Telesur’s Washington D.C., and was senior researcher in Consejo de Asuntos Hemisféricos, also in D.C.

You can see Alina’s journalistic work on Capital 21 and Canal Once on Mexican Public TV, as well as on independent news outlet Sin Embargo. She teaches international political education at MORENA’s Instituto Nacional de Formación Política in Mexico.