Kidnapped by Dina Meza

Kidnapped by Dina Meza

Author:Dina Meza [Meza, Dina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789462251649
Publisher: Eavatafoundation
Published: 2015-08-11T22:00:00+00:00


_ Images to rescue the history of Honduras

Audiovisual media is another tool used to document events. An example is the independent project by two Hondurans, Luis Méndez, Coordinator of the School of Political Education for Social Movements (Escuela de Formación Política para Movimientos Sociales), and Blanca Ochoa, a graduate of Cuba’s International School of Film and Television.

“We’re seeking to reconstruct historical memory through the testimonies of people who’ve played an important role in the history of Honduras but who’ve been sidelined by the corporate media,” they both said to the journalist Giorgio Trucchi, Central American correspondent for SIREL (Latin American Regional Information Service) of the IUF (International Union of Food Workers).

“When we went searching for the images and sounds of many of these phases in our history, we realized that there was nothing, everything had been lost. The alternative media has to go on the offensive, recover the real stories of those who’ve lived and fought on their own land and at the side of their brothers and sisters in Central America. We’re going to search out their voices, their faces, their contributions to politics and theory, their dreams, their failures and their sorrows. We’re going to retrace their steps, reconstructing histories,” said Luis Méndez.

For Blanca Ochoa, “Without historical memory, you’re left relying on empty models, with the risk that the hegemonic projects of manufacturing and consumption, as well as the false models of a so-called democracy, will gain traction among young people.

“We’re in the middle of a media war and we must fight for a historical and collective consciousness which motivates and nourishes the younger generation, so that they can take on an active role and become this country’s future,” she said.

For Méndez, “reality has been deliberately concealed” in Honduras to convince the younger generation that there was never strong opposition to the prevailing predatory economic model.

“In Honduras there’s no sense of nationhood and our territory has always served as a platform for American strategic interests. They’ve tried to homogenize us, disappearing indigenous cultures, leaving us in limbo. The local oligarchy and imperialism continue to manipulate reality, conspiring with transnational interests. For them we don’t exist, we simply pass through this world without leaving a trace. They feed on our native culture, segregate the indigenous and black peoples, suppress them, exclude them, discriminate against them and turn them into folklore, handicrafts and merchandise. They rob us of life,” said Ochoa.



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