Reportaje del Centro de Comunicación Popular Nuestroamericano y Revista Crisis, como herramientas de comunicación contrahegemónica, durante las movilizaciones desde el 4 hasta el 14 de octubre en la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

This audiovisual product summarizes the role of the popular and alternative communication media, Nuestro Americano and Revista Crisis, during the mobilizations in Quito - Ecuador from October 4th to 14th, 2019 as tools of counter-hegemonic communication to the established discourse, from the political power, to the concealment and misrepresentation of information from the hegemonic communication companies. The methodology used was an in-depth interview with various social and political actors, whose analyze from the communicative, social and political perspective the role of the other communication away from the power block. The complicity of the information merchants made possible the crimes against humanity committed by Moreno's government during the mobilization days of thousands and thousands of self-convened citizens in various provinces, demanding the repeal of Decree 883 that liberalized the price of the fuels. The media lynching, stigmatization, and the leakage of confidential information from judicial processes were the protagonists in the treatment of the events in the media until October 14th. So, what was the role of the Centro de Comunicación Popular Nuestroamericano and Revista Crisis, as references of counter-hegemonic communication, in the treatment of information on the brutal repression and persecution that the Moreno government perpetrated during the "October Strike"? The alternative and popular media have become the best ally in the dissemination of the reality of the subaltern classes, historically through the ideological and repressive apparatus of domination.