Tuesday, January 25, 2005
CNN en Espanol Gets Competition In Venezuela
Source: Venezuelan News The Venezuelan Council of Ministers approved a decree creating Telesur, a satellite news channel intended to compliment the northern perspective offered by the dominating channel in Latin America, CNN in Spanish, with a more southern perspective on the region.
In a press conference held after shortly after the decree was approved, the Minister of Communication and Information, Andrés Izarra, explained that this new state-run communications company, Telesur, would be a crucial communication tool for the region and, "a force of integration, in which we hope that all the countries in the South participate."
"I believe that it is very soon, before the end of the year, we will have Telesur up and running. We are working in order to achieve this. It will be an interesting contrast with the information that CNN in Spanish, the channel that has the most satellite power, transmits, and also with the rest of the international media that frequently airs biased and/or untruthful information which supports a particular political agenda," noted Izarra.
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