This way there let know today the president of the chain of television "panlatinoamericana", Andrés Izarra, about his present in London in the seminar "The mass media in the age of the global communications", organized by the Town hall of the British capital.

This initiatory expansionist way part of the initial idea of Telesur of being "an alternative to the means that come from the north and that sometimes do not reflect the reality" Latin American, as well as of creating a "window to the world" of what Latin America is now, as said his president.

Izarra, who was the minister of Communication of the Government of Hugo Chávez, defined his company as a "antihegemonic station that gives another vision of Latin America, from Latin America and for Latin America".

This sense of regional cohesion is the one that the Telesur president wanted to emphasize from his company, which expresses his sign to the whole America and which, with head office in Caracas, is a joint property of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and Argentina.

"As we could know each other and support our integration process, this will redound to economic and political benefits for the region", mentioned Izarra, who bet for "democratizing the spaces mediáticos of Latin America, till now in private hands", to fight against the American hegemony.

Out of this network of countries that take part of Telesur there stays Mexico, a dominated country, as he said, for the group of communication It Televises, property of the family Azcárraga and that, in his opinion, controls not only the production, but also the contents distribution.

For his president, Telesur, who only counts with 15 months of life, it will not enter in competition with Televisa, since they devote themselves "basically" to the information and the Mexican group is a "giant" who has his sights put in the entertainment.

In the seminar in which there took part Izarra, which was framed inside the conference "World civilization or shock of civilizations", there was tackled also the situation of the mass media in Venezuela and his informative freedom.

"There is no country of the world as Venezuela in which major freedom of expression exists", said Izarra, who had, nevertheless, that to listen to the criticism of some Latin-American participants in the seminar as which Telesur is clearly to the service of the Government of Hugo Chávez.


(Agencies, 22/01/07)