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Telesur: A Counter-Hegemonic Project to Compete with CNN and Univisión

by Blanche Petrich

Caracas (Venezuela) | 2 March 2005

Paralleling the Arab Al Jazeera, Telesur will be something like Al Bolívar. Aram Aharonian, the Uruguayan journalist who will be the general director of this continental channel says it will be, "the first counter-hegemonic telecommunications project known in South America."