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</div><div>This is the second time the teleSUR English page has been taken down by Facebook moderators. </div><div>
</div><div>teleSUR English's page has been removed from Facebook for the second time this year without any specific reason being provided. It should be noted that the first time this occurred back in January 2018, Facebook did NOT provide any explanation in spite of our best efforts to understand their rationale. This is an alarming development in light of the recent shutting down of pages that don't fit a mainstream narrative. </div><div>
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</div><div>This is currently the only communication we have received from Facebook:</div><div>
</div><div> "Hello,</div><div>
</div><div>Your Page "teleSUR English" has been removed for violating our Terms of Use. A Facebook Page is a distinct presence used solely for business or promotional purposes. Among other things, Pages that are hateful, threatening or obscene are not allowed. We also take down Pages that attack an individual or group, or that are set up by an unauthorised individual. If your Page was removed for any of the above reasons, it will not be reinstated. Continued misuse of Facebook's features could result in the permanent loss of your account.</div><div>
</div><div>The Facebook Team"</div><div>
</div><div>Shortly after the news, the administrator of Revolution News informed from his personal Facebook page that he had received a warning from Facebook seconds after he had scheduled this very article to go on the Facebook page of Revolution News. </div><div>
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</div><div>Meanwhile, followers and supporters of teleSUR English sent out tweets and posts on Facebook and Twitters and other social media websites denouncing the unexplained action by Facebook and arguing that such move is rooted into Facebook's own bias against outlets and news organizations that do not fit within the mainstream media landscape. </div><div>View image on Twitter</div><div>View image on Twitter</div><div>
</div><div>Max Blumenthal</div><div>?</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">@MaxBlumenthal</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Facebook has just deleted the page of @telesurenglish. A network source tells me FB justified eliminating the page on the vague basis of "violation of terms." The NATO-backed @DFRLab is currently assisting FB's purge. This is deeply disturbing.</span></div><div>
</div><div>3:35 PM - Aug 13, 2018</div><div>1,074</div><div>1,239 people are talking about this</div><div>Twitter Ads info and privacy</div><div> </div><div><b>Also, several news outlets such as RT and Venezuelanalysis, which its own Facebook page was removed briefly last week, Democracy Now! and others reported on the news and expressed concern over the removal of teleSUR English page. </b></div><div>
</div><div>RT</div><div>?</div><div>@RT_com</div><div> .@telesurenglish Facebook page gone without explanation https://on.rt.com/9cbs </div><div>
</div><div>6:22 PM - Aug 13, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>Facebook vanishes Venezuela-based left-leaning news network again — RT World News</div><div>Telesur English, a multi-state funded Latin American news network, says that Facebook has removed its page for the second time this year “without any specific reason being provided.”</div><div>
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Telesur</b> (stylised as <b style="">teleSUR</b>) is a multi-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_media" title="State media" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">state funded</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Latin American</a> terrestrial and satellite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network" title="Television network" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">television network</a> headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Caracas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Venezuela</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> It is sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela,</span><sup id="cite_ref-Channeling_1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Channeling-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> but also by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Cuba</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nicaragua</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Uruguay</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Bolivia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ArgentinaOut_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-ArgentinaOut-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Legal_status,funding_and_structure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legal status, funding and structure</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Founding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Founding</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Incorporation_process_of_the_sponsor_countries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Incorporation process of the sponsor countries</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Uruguay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Uruguay</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Journalists_and_staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Journalists and staff</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Fredy_Mu%C3%B1oz_Altamiranda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#William_Parra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">William Parra</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Edgardo_Esteban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Edgardo Esteban</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Elena_Rodr%C3%ADguez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elena Rodríguez</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversies</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Political_bias" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political bias</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Advertisements" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Advertisements</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Human_rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Human rights</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#2009_Honduras_coup_coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2009 Honduras coup coverage</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Distribution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Distribution</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#South_America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">South America</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Cuba" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Cuba</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Africa</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Additional_language_versions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Additional language versions</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Telesur_English" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Telesur English</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#HD" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">HD</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Programming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Programming</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Current_programming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Current programming</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Cancelled_programmes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Cancelled programmes</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notes</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#Reception" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Reception</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">10</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); 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width: 1.5em; height: 1.5em; margin: 1px 0px; border: 1px solid black; background-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); text-align: center;"> </span> Latin American countries sponsoring Telesur</font></a></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TeleSUR.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" viewbox="%220" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" id="%22smallbox%22" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%23000%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" d="%22M-1.499" h10.99v7.919h-10.99z="h10.99v7.919h-10.99z" e="E" h5.943v4.904h-5.943z="h5.943v4.904h-5.943z" c="C" g="g" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" user-select="user-select" none="none" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">La Nueva Televisora del Sur, C.A. is a public company which has various Latin American governments as its sponsors. Its primary sponsor is the </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Venezuela" title="Government of Venezuela" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Government of Venezuela</a> while other governments such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cuba</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicaragua</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Uruguay</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bolivia</a> contribute as well; Argentina was its second main sponsor. Argentina pulled out in 2016 because of a "lack of 'pluralism'."<sup id="cite_ref-ArgentinaOut_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-ArgentinaOut-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The channel's news agenda was originally dictated by its Board of Directors with the aid of an advisory council, which is formed by many international and regional leftist intellectuals, including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nobel Peace Prize</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> winner </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_P%C3%A9rez_Esquivel" title="Adolfo Pérez Esquivel" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Adolfo Pérez Esquivel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, poet </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Cardenal" title="Ernesto Cardenal" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ernesto Cardenal</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, writers </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Galeano" title="Eduardo Galeano" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Eduardo Galeano</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali" title="Tariq Ali" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tariq Ali</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Landau" title="Saul Landau" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Saul Landau</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> editor-in-chief of </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde_diplomatique" title="Le Monde diplomatique" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Le Monde diplomatique</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and historian </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Ramonet" title="Ignacio Ramonet" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ignacio Ramonet</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Argentine film producer </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_Bauer" title="Tristán Bauer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tristán Bauer</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">free software pioneer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Stallman</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">US</a> actor and activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Glover" title="Danny Glover" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Danny Glover</a>. The network carries no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement" title="Television advertisement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">commercial advertising</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Stallman later resigned on 26 February 2011, criticising what he called the channel's pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaddafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaddafi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gaddafi</a> stance during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Libyan Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Founding">Founding</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Founding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The founder of Telesur was Aram Aharonian, a journalist and scholar who left Uruguay due to right-wing pressure.<sup id="cite_ref-CarrollTelesur_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-CarrollTelesur-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Aharonian stated that the idea of Telesur was "to see ourselves as we truly were", stating that he sought more diversity in the media.<sup id="cite_ref-CarrollTelesur_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-CarrollTelesur-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> After Aharonian resigned from his position as the network's director in 2013, he commented in a 2014 interview that Telesur "did not achieve latinamericanization and continued to be Venezuelan".<sup id="cite_ref-Lagaceta_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Lagaceta-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The proposed alternative Latin American television network that would become Telesur took shape on January 24, 2005, as part of the projects approved in a council of ministers of the Venezuelan government.<sup id="cite_ref-MINCI1_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-MINCI1-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> According to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Boston Globe</a></i>, Venezuelan president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hugo Chávez</a>, whom they described as a "media savvy, forward-thinking propagandist," was able to fund 70% of Telesur's functions while also providing broadcasting facilities, with other leftist governments supporting the network as well, advertising it "as a Latin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">socialist</a> answer to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CNN</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Channeling_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Channeling-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> Telesur began broadcasting on a limited, four-hour schedule on July 24, 2005, on the 222nd birthday of Latin American leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Simón Bolívar</a>. The network began full-time broadcasts on October 31, 2005.</font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Incorporation_process_of_the_sponsor_countries">Incorporation process of the sponsor countries</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: Incorporation process of the sponsor countries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Uruguay">Uruguay</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=5" title="Edit section: Uruguay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The process of integration of Uruguay to Telesur was long and controversial. On March 3, 2005 Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez signed several agreements with then-recently elected Uruguayan president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabar%C3%A9_V%C3%A1zquez" title="Tabaré Vázquez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tabaré Vázquez</a> regarding the energetic and communicational integration of both countries, one of them being the joint creation and financing of Telesur. After just under a year of signing the agreements, they had not been carried out, although the party of President Vázquez was a majority in the country's legislative branch. Venezuelan journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9s_Izarra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrés Izarra (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Andrés Izarra</a>, president of Telesur, confirmed in an interview in January 2006 the delay in the approval of the full incorporation of the country to the network: "There is a special situation (in Uruguay), because although the country <i>is</i> a member of Telesur, until their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Assembly_of_Uruguay" title="General Assembly of Uruguay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congress</a> does not approve it, we can't broadcast the channel locally or receive government funding. The situation requires a political decision and we hope that the government of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabar%C3%A9_V%C3%A1zquez" title="Tabaré Vázquez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tabaré Vázquez</a> support the initiative".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> The president of the Uruguayan Deputies' Education Commission, Jorge Brovetto confirmed in February of that year the country still wasn't part of the network's sponsors and asked that, until the parliament has not decided on a final status, the removal of the country's name as sponsor from its promotions and the website.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> In June of that year, and as the nation's Minister of Education and Culture, Brovetto expressed worries regarding the network's editorial line on certain issues and governments in the region, and how the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">diplomacy</a> of his country could be affected by it.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> Uruguay's Chamber of Senators approved the bill that would ratify the agreements on August 8, 2006 by votes of the legislators belonging to ruling party, but the Chamber of Deputies postponed several times the debate on the draft.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> Although sources close to the Congress told the press in February 2009 that the issue of incorporation to Telesur "was not a priority item in their agenda", and that the issue would not be discussed during the remainder of that year,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> the agreement was finally ratified on June 2, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Journalists_and_staff">Journalists and staff</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: Journalists and staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Fredy_Mu.C3.B1oz_Altamiranda"><span class="mw-headline" id="Fredy_Muñoz_Altamiranda">Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=7" title="Edit section: Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late 2006, the then correspondent of Telesur in Colombia, Fredy Muñoz Altamiranda, was arrested on November 19 on charges of rebellion and terrorism. The journalist was accused of being "Jorge Eliécer", a leader of the FARC guerrilla group held responsible for various terrorist attacks. The prosecution cited the testimonies of jailed guerrillas against the journalist. Múñoz's defense argued that the testimonies which implicated him were inconsistent and denounced procedural irregularities after the moment of his arrest. One of the jailed guerrillas claimed that "Jorge Eliécer" suffered several burns on his body due to an accidental bomb explosion. According to Telesur, the journalist was subjected to physical analysis which determined that there were no injuries in his body matching those described by the witness, and another guerrilla later stated he had been pressured to declare against Múñoz by members of the Colombian Navy's intelligence branch.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Múñoz was released on January 10, 2007, after which he declared that "when I left the prison, less than an hour after leaving, two agents visited the jail and asked in an aggressive manner to officials of the prison where I was going to [and] what was my itinerary after leaving prison."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> Muñoz Altamiranda said that he feared for his life after being released due to subsequent threats.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reporters Without Borders</a> had questioned the evidence against Múñoz and called his imprisonment an "outrage" and an "abuse", arguing that the Colombian government could be acting against press freedom if the journalist had been jailed due to his work or because of past Telesur interviews with Colombian guerrillas. The Inter American Press Association also criticized his detention and asked for the respect of due process.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="William_Parra">William Parra</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=8" title="Edit section: William Parra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noted Colombian journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parra" title="William Parra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Parra</a>, a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reuters</a> correspondent, worked for Telesur full-time from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to seek political asylum in Venezuela after being charged with links with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC" class="mw-redirect" title="FARC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FARC</a>. He denies the accusations, and said in September 2010 that his lawyers had received death threats.</font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Edgardo_Esteban">Edgardo Esteban</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=9" title="Edit section: Edgardo Esteban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telesur correspondent in Argentina, Edgardo Esteban, was awakened the morning on September 11, 2008, by the detonation of a homemade bomb of low intensity in front of his home.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> The journalist had received several threats because of his work on torture and corruption of Argentine military during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Falklands War</a>. The Latin American Federation of Journalists,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> the Forum of Argentine Journalism<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_American_Press_Association" title="Inter American Press Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inter American Press Association</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> expressed its rejection to any situations that put at risk the life of the journalist and demanded from the national and provincial authorities to work "so that intimidation against journalists will not happen again". Esteban expressed concern for his life and his family after the attack.</font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Elena_Rodr.C3.ADguez"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elena_Rodríguez">Elena Rodríguez</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=10" title="Edit section: Elena Rodríguez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telesur correspondent in Ecuador, Elena Rodríguez, was beaten and robbed in Quito on September 19, 2009, by a group of three people who left a pamphlet in which she received death threats because of her journalistic work for the channel.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> The journalist had received death threats before.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Controversies">Controversies</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=11" title="Edit section: Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_bias">Political bias</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=12" title="Edit section: Political bias" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics have argued that Telesur works as a propaganda network for the regimes of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, and provides coverages that focus only in the information that may benefit or harm a government, according to its political aligment. According to website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobae" title="Infobae" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">infobae</a>, on a big demonstration in Argentina in December 2017 against policies proposed by centre-right Argentine President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Macri" title="Mauricio Macri" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mauricio Macri</a>, who has denounced human rights abuses in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Venezuela</a>, Telesur "omitted the attack on uniforms and the big number of injured policemen(...)and also omitted that protagonist of one of the incidents was pre-candidate to deputy for a left party, Santiago Sebastian Romero".<sup id="cite_ref-doble_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-doble-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> while "there were demonstrations in Venezuela against the economic policies of Venezuelan President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicolás Maduro</a> in the same year, that ended with 100 deaths, thousands of arbitrary detentions and injured people. In those cases, Telesur praised the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_National_Guard" title="Venezuelan National Guard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Venezuelan National Guard</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_National_Police" title="Bolivarian National Police" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bolivarian National Police</a>, accused the demonstrators of being related to the United States, and considered Maduro's regime as a promoter of peace".<sup id="cite_ref-doble_24-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-doble-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Advertisements">Advertisements</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=13" title="Edit section: Advertisements" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While promoting an ad campaign for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Venezuela" title="Government of Venezuela" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Government of Venezuela</a>, Telesur used a photo on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Twitter</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Miami Herald</a> reporter Jim Wyss arriving at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_International_Airport" title="Miami International Airport" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Miami International Airport</a> after being arrested by Venezuelan authorities and interrogated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEBIN" class="mw-redirect" title="SEBIN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SEBIN</a>, with the Telesur Twitter campaign stating, "We love Venezuela for receiving foreigners like one of our own."<sup id="cite_ref-NYTjan2015_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-NYTjan2015-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNNjan2015_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-CNNjan2015-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TELEjan2015_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-TELEjan2015-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCjan2015_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-BBCjan2015-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> The incident became popular in the international media since they found the use of the photo ironic due to the circumstances surrounding it.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTjan2015_25-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-NYTjan2015-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNNjan2015_26-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-CNNjan2015-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TELEjan2015_27-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-TELEjan2015-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCjan2015_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-BBCjan2015-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> Telesur later removed the photo from their Twitter.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNjan2015_26-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-CNNjan2015-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Human_rights">Human rights</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=14" title="Edit section: Human rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americas director of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human Rights Watch</a>, Jose Miguel Vivanco, opposed the creation of Telesur.<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Concise-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> In 2005, Vivanco stated, "If the shareholders of this company belong to a government like Cuba where they have no basic concept of free speech and zero tolerance for independent views, God help us".<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_29-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Concise-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> Human Rights Watch also criticized the Venezuelan government in 2008 for preventing the freedom of expression of private media by blocking their expansion while strengthening the presence of Telesur and other government media in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> Telesur response was shown on an interview to the author Jean Bricmonau, who denounces the NGO for the use of human rights as masquerade for his political agenda in an article about his book titled “Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War”, where he points a group of supposedly independants NGOs developed "an ideology that has been used in a systematic way in order to undermine the sovereignty of weak states and justify intervention."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the election of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauricio_Macri" title="Mauricio Macri" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mauricio Macri</a> as President of Argentina, Macri and Venezuelan President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicolás Maduro</a> engaged in disputes over Venezuela's human rights, with the Argentine government later pulling its funding of Telesur in March 2016 alleging that Telesur "blocks alternative viewpoints".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> The president of the Telesur, Patricia Villegas denounced "censorship by the Argentine president."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="mw-headline" id="2009_Honduras_coup_coverage" style="">2009 Honduras coup coverage</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A group of Telesur and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezolana_de_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Venezolana de Televisión" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Venezuelan state media</a> journalists were in Honduras on 28 June 2009 to cover the events in relation to a non-binding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">referendum</a> on the possibility of changes to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Honduras" title="Constitution of Honduras" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">constitution of Honduras</a>. As soon as they learned that soldiers of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Honduras" title="Military of Honduras" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Honduran military</a> ousted President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Zelaya" title="Manuel Zelaya" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Manuel Zelaya</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2009 Honduran coup d'état" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">coup</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile" title="Exile" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">exiled</a> him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Costa Rica</a> the staff stayed in the country to cover all events after the coup.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A day after the coup Telesur journalist Adriana Sívori and the crew that was accompanying her was arrested by the military with several other international journalists under threat, and retained their passports.</span><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> As soon as the world learned of the detention, the journalists and their staff were quickly released. Sívori was reportedly assaulted by the soldiers who detained her. Telesur was, until the detention and quick release of journalist Sívori the only international channel that was broadcasting live the unrest in the streets of Tegucigalpa.</span><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The coverage of the coup by the channel, according to supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and several social and sindical organizations, was essential to make the world and, to some extent, the Honduran people know "without censorships" the situation in the country and President Zelaya's whereabouts.</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On June 30, several social organizations and journalistic unions in Venezuela took part in a march to the channel's studios in solidarity with the journalists.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 12, the Telesur crew, which were working together with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezolana_de_Televisi%C3%B3n" title="Venezolana de Televisión" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Venezuelan state media's</a> were arrested at dawn by police in the hotel where they were staying. After a rigorous review of their documents and after being warned that if they continued their work in the country their personal safety was at risk the crews were released but banned from leaving the hotel.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup> The teams decided to leave the country after concluding that it was not possible to continue their work. Telesur sent a press statement expressing that the channel would make "further efforts to ensure accurate, timely and uncensored accurate information for the world and for the Honduran people, in such a complex historical circumstances." The Latin American Federation of Journalists, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Commission_on_Human_Rights" title="Inter-American Commission on Human Rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_American_Press_Association" title="Inter American Press Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Inter American Press Association</a> condemned what they considered an attempt to stifle the free flow of information on the situation in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telesur criticised the communiqué published by the Inter American Press Association, claiming that "it underestimates with great severity the risks to the life of the teams of reporters and technicians in Honduras by the threats of the repressive forces of a government unrecognized by several international organizations and countries in the world", the "implicit legitimacy" given to the de facto government and the criticizing of the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua, sponsors of the channel, for allegedly "restricting press freedom".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 25, Telesur journalists claimed they had been attacked with high-frequency radiation and mind-altering gas along with other international journalists accompanying Manuel Zelaya during his entrenchment in the Brazilian embassy after returning to the country on Sept. 21.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telesur reported on October 9 that their media staff who were covering the stay of President Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa since his arrival on September 21, were forced to leave by "the progressive deterioration of their health due to a systematic plan of repression carried out by the de facto authorities".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Distribution">Distribution</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=16" title="Edit section: Distribution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Telesur is available <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-air" title="Free-to-air" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">free-to-air</a> via satellite to Latin America, the United States, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Western Europe</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Northern Africa</a>. The network's availability through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cable television</a> has been very limited in Latin America because of the network's editorial approach to several events and governments in the region; the station manager in 2007, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aram_Arahonian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aram Arahonian (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aram Arahonian</a> said in an interview that "cable owners do not provide us with any access [...] it's not frequent, but it has affected us in the large countries.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Christopher Walker of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Democracy" title="Journal of Democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Journal of Democracy</a></i>, Telesur is described as Venezuela's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">authoritarian</a> media outlet" that has the ability to take advantage of both domestic and foreign media due to the censorship under regimes in native countries and the openness of democratic nations to which it broadcasts.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="South_America">South America</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=17" title="Edit section: South America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The availability of the channel via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_television" title="Terrestrial television" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">terrestrial television</a> is very limited in the vast majority of South American countries. The only countries in the region that receive all of Telesur's broadcasts via terrestrial television are Venezuela and Ecuador, whose governments are sponsors of the channel. Telesur is currently available via Digital Terrestrial Television in Argentina, as part of the Government-sponsored channel line-up which includes several other public service, educational, music, sports, and news channels. Venezuela started broadcasting Telesur via terrestrial television on February 9, 2007<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup> and Ecuador on July 15, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup> The rest of the sponsor countries broadcast some of the networks' programs, mainly the news, in their public and educational channels (see list of sister channels).<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network started in February 2008 to broadcast some news programming to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brazil</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Portuguese</a> through several community stations in the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1(state)" title="Paraná (state)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paraná</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Portuguese_51-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Portuguese-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Cuba">Cuba</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=18" title="Edit section: Cuba" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Telesur has Cuba as one of its main funders and suppliers of programming, the channel is not completely available in the country. It was not until late 2007 that its programming is broadcast daily on the island, but only from 22:30 until 8:00 the following day via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Educativo_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Canal Educativo 2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Canal Educativo 2</a>, a educational television channel.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup> From 20 January 2013, live simulcasting of Telesur has been extended and now occurs daily from 20:00 until 16:30.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup> Until January 2013 some of Telesur's programming was broadcast in Cuba during the day on that channel but as a one-hour, highly edited mix of its news and documentary programmes titled 'Lo mejor de Telesur' (<i>The Best of Telesur</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup> and, depending on the topic in the program, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_Redonda_Internacional" title="Mesa Redonda Internacional" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mesa Redonda Internacional</a>, a news and opinion program that's produced for Telesur by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Institute_of_Radio_and_Television" title="Cuban Institute of Radio and Television" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cuban Institute of Radio and Television</a>. According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Swedish</a> analyst <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathan_Shachar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nathan Shachar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nathan Shachar</a>, in this way, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cuban</a> government censors any information that is not to the liking of its "political system",<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup> which includes "free elections, multiparty, strikes and protest movements that are non-existent on the island".<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Africa">Africa</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=19" title="Edit section: Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 27, 2009, Telesur president and Venezuelan official Andrés Izarra announced an agreement with public TV stations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mozambique</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola" title="Angola" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Angola</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_Bissau" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinea Bissau" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Guinea Bissau</a> to broadcast some of the channel programming in Portuguese in the context of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Africa-South_America_Summit" title="Second Africa-South America Summit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Second Africa-South America Summit</a>, held in Venezuela.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Additional_language_versions">Additional language versions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=20" title="Edit section: Additional language versions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of the U.S. media coverage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9317_Venezuelan_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2014–17 Venezuelan protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2014 Venezuela protests</a> and after his interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour" title="Christiane Amanpour" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christiane Amanpour</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CNN</a>, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Maduro" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicolas Maduro" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nicolas Maduro</a> announced on March 8 that on July 24, coinciding with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Simón Bolívar Day" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Simón Bolívar Day</a>, Telesur would launch in English, French and Portuguese.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Telesur_English">Telesur English</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=21" title="Edit section: Telesur English" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In July 2014, an English Telesur website was launched. A 24-hour broadcast channel started in July 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup> On 23 January 2018, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Facebook_features" title="List of Facebook features" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Facebook page</a> was deleted momentarily. However, a Facebook spokesperson said "[<i>Telesur English</i>] was temporarily unavailable due to an internal mistake." The page has nearly 400,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_like_button" title="Facebook like button" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">likes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ballesteros_2018_62-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur(TV_channel)#cite_note-Ballesteros_2018-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="HD">HD</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesur_(TV_channel)&action=edit§ion=22" title="Edit section: HD" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television" title="High-definition television" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">High-definition</a> (HD) tests started in March 2017 via satellite using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES-6" title="SES-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SES-6</a>-capacities. The official HDTV launch took place on 24 July 2017.</font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Programming"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Programming</font></span></h2></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div>