TeleSUR

Televisora del Sur ("Television of the South", teleSUR) is a pan-Latin American television network based in Caracas, Venezuela. It began broadcasting on July 24 2005.

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Latin American - Television network - Caracas - Venezuela - July 24 - 2005

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Proposed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, teleSUR is meant as a counterweight to popular privately-run networks in South America like CNN and Univision. It is also intended as a spur toward South American integration. The network is jointly owned and funded by many countries: at first, Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (19%), and Uruguay (10%), with the prospect of other countries joining later. These countries as well as Brazil (which is working on its own international TV channel, TV Brasil) will collaborate on content and technology.

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Venezuela - President - Hugo Chávez - CNN - Univision - South American integration - Argentina - Cuba - Uruguay - Brazil

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It's advisory council is formed by many international and regional intellectuals, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, poet Ernesto Cardenal, writers Eduardo Galeano and Tariq Ali, newspaper editor and historian Ignacio Ramonet, free software pioneer Richard Stallman, and actor Danny Glover.

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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Ernesto Cardenal - Eduardo Galeano - Tariq Ali - Ignacio Ramonet - Richard Stallman - Danny Glover

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A week before the network began broadcasting, the United States House of Representatives voted to enable the US administration to begin broadcasting its own television signals to Venezuela; a plan intended to counter what it called anti-US propaganda.

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