La conferencia de San José de Costa Rica (1976)

Résumé

Twenty years ago the discussion about communication politics was one of the action pivots of UNESCO. The links between communication and development became the national dimension of New World Order of Information and Communication (NOMIC), and this at its time became a fundamental component of New International Economic Order. At this conference appeared all the ingredients of what later would constitute the troublesome debates in UNESCO. Despite that, as we will explain in here, the previous debates had been yet very tough and had drawn the scenery of confrontation East/West and North/South, it would be in San José de Costa Rica¿s Conference where the politics of fight and defeat the UNESCO was designed. It began there a campaign of political attacks, of lies and defamations against UNESCO and their leaders which would not cease until USA and Great Britain¿s withdrawal, firstly, and with the shocking appointment of Mayor Zaragoza for general director. Today, with Mayor as chairman, the UNESCO reflects the times of this ¿new order¿, so different to those two big projects whose basic idea was solidarity. Twenty years after, it remains nothing of the spirit which served to assemble the First Intergovernmental Conference of Communication Politics in Latin America and the Caribe. That is why we have intended to remember here the history of this encounter