TeleSur : Free Television in Latin America
March 14, 2005
Bolivarian revolutionary reforms, their progressive trend, Venezuelan strives to establish sovereignty and independence get on the nerves of the present “globalization crusaders” for whom dissidence of any kind - politics, economy, energy, integration - is liable to punishment. Everyone must match the “empire”!
The initial TeleSur capital was received from the Venezuela government (70%) as well as 20% from Argentina and 10% from Uruguay.
The television studios are being built at an accelerated pace in the neighbourhood with the pavilions of the state television of Venezuela. TeleSur news offices are opened in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico and the United States.
For broadcasting TeleSur will employ a satellite that is being developed by the Chinese specialists on the Venezuelan order. For now the TeleSur ‘picture’ will be distributed via commercial channels. The programmes of this Latin American channel will be received in all countries of the Western Hemisphere, Europe, western coast of Africa. In due course TeleSur will cover the whole planet.
Apart from that, Latin Americans will have a chance to speak of themselves truly, without falsification, reticence, perversions and fabricated facts. Against this background it will be more difficult to the “crusade promoters” to fight a media war against the unfavourable regimes in Latin America.
And, no doubt, Latin Americans will be able to know more about one another as compared to the recent past when there was ‘an informational curtain’ between the countries of the continent more like the ‘iron’ one.