Latin American television TeleSUR has launched an English-language website to provide a global, English-speaking audience with a 鈥淟atin American perspective鈥 on world events, on July 29.
Based in Caracas, TeleSUR is sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina and Uruguay.
The site says: 鈥渢eleSUR is a Latin American multimedia platform oriented to lead and promote the unification of the peoples of the SOUTH. We are a space and a voice for the construction of a new communications order.鈥
The site went live on July 24,, the ninth anniversary of the TeleSUR network and the birthday of revered South American revolutionary Simon Bol铆var,IBT.com said. It was launched with a 40-minute interview of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by British-Pakistani author Tariq Ali.
The site promotes the slogan: 鈥淒on鈥檛 resign yourself to having just one side of the story.鈥
IBT.com said Gregory Wilpert, founder of pro-Bolivarian revolution website Venezuela Analysis is the new initiative鈥檚 website's director.
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