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Telesur In English

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/section/joinus/index.html

The arrival of teleSUR in the English-speaking world will provide a much-needed view from the South to those in the northern hemisphere.

In an office nestled 2,800 meters above sea level in the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of some 30 people from over 12 countries are in the throes of making a website that might just change the way Latin America is seen in the West.

The website is teleSUR English, Latin America’s answer to Al Jazeera, or Russia Today. The original Spanish-language channel broke the hegemony over Latin American news that CNN en Español once had. Resolving to be truly representative and inclusive in its reporting of the mulch-ethinc, plurilingual region, teleSUR broke television norms by airing a range of ethnicities, accents and even languages.

Started by the Venezuelan government in 2005, under former president Hugo Chavez, teleSUR grew from a local channel to a pan-American network with a range of news and analysis programs with a left-leaning, Latin American focus.

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