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Chavez TV Channel Aims to Be Latin American Voice
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Chavez TV Channel Aims to Be Latin American Voice
Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:26 PM ET

By Pascal Fletcher
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Three years ago, private Venezuelan television stations chose not to cover a military-civilian uprising that rescued President Hugo Chavez from a short-lived coup.

Now firmly back in power, the leftist leader will launch a state-run regional TV channel this summer to break what he calls a conspiracy by international and local commercial networks to silence and distort news from Latin America.

Telesur, a new 24-hour Spanish-language satellite station formed by the governments of Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay, is due to go live in July or August, its director general said on Tuesday.
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Aharonian, a Uruguayan journalist who has worked in Venezuela for years, said the new Caracas-based station will offer an alternative voice to U.S. and European broadcasters in Spanish like CNN En Espanol or Spain's TVE.
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