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The ‘emancipation of media’: Latin American advocacy for a New International Information Order in the 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Vanessa Freije
Vanessa Freije*
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University of Washington, Box 353650, Seattle WA, 98195-3650, USA
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Abstract

Throughout the 1970s, journalists and leaders in the Global South organized around the concept of a New International Information Order (NIIO), premised upon the self-determination of news access and production. Though largely forgotten today, the NIIO constituted a key platform of the ‘Third World’ solidarity movement. Latin America was a prominent site for NIIO activism, and this article examines the regional and local meetings that frequently brought together governing officials, reporters, and academics. Focusing on the shifting expectations of exiled Latin Americans living in Mexico City, the article explores the domestic political factors that eventually attenuated enthusiasm for the NIIO. By the late 1970s, Latin American advocates argued that repressive governments could not be trusted to safeguard socially responsible information initiatives, such as regional wire services. Moreover, they underscored that national democratization was necessary before global inequities could be resolved.

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Latin American democratizationLatin American mediaNew International Information OrderSouth–South exchangeThird Worldism
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Journal of Global History , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 301 - 320
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Footnotes

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Thank you to the many friends and colleagues who have read and improved this article, particularly Daniel Bessner, Dexter Fergie, Patrick Kelly, José Antonio Lucero, Christian Novetzke, and Corinna Zeltsman. Thank you also to the organizers of the Communicating International Organisations in the 19th and 20th Centuries Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, where I first received valuable feedback. Research for the article has been supported by the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows, the U.S.–Mexican Studies Center at the University of California San Diego, and the Fulbright-García Robles.

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