'El' Jazeera

With journalistic heavyweights and a non-corporate image, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is waging a new media war against the mass propaganda of US, Great Britian and Latin America globalization crusaders who are threatening punishment for dissidence of any kind; politics, economy, energy and “pro-democracy” integration. Telesur, “Television of the South” could be cooperating logistically with Al-Jazeera to get away from the real “mind poison” that flows through the quasi-monopoly of US media vectors tauting political hegemony, and speak for themselves, without falsification, reticene, perversions and fabricated facts, by tearing down that invisible corporate media built, “Iron Curtain” we’ve all come to know so well in America.

Move over Al Jazeera, Telesur is here.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, tireless polemist and Bush nemesis, has a new pet project: a continent-wide television network slated for broadcast throughout South America in the coming weeks.

Telesur, or “Television of the South,” aims to be a competitor of CNN, Univison and other global giants seen by southern neighbors as minions of American hegemony.

Described by its new director, Aram Aharonian, as South America’s “first counter-hegemonic media project,” Telesur reportedly has 20 employees but hopes to work its way up to at least 60. The Chavez government has coughed up $2.5 million for the project thus far and is permitting Telesur to operate as an affiliate of Venezuelan state television.

Telesur is painted in populist hues, befitting a World Social Forum keynoter. A kind of Al Jazeera of the South, the commercial-free, state-funded channel will beam news, documentaries and other programming with a uniquely Latin flavor. The network will be boosted by the presence of journalistic heavyweights — among them, Jorge Enrique Botero, a well-known television producer known for his coverage of FARC rebels.

The vibe?

Forget coats, ties and corporate coif. Telesur’s lead anchorwoman, Ati Kiwa, an indigenous Colombian woman, will deliver news while in native dress.

Telesur…

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