There's a new broadcast news alternative for Latinamerica: Telesur has begun broadcasting from Caracas, Venezuela with a specifically Southern-hemisphere bent.
Wikipedia, the online people's encyclopedia says "TeleSUR is meant as a counterweight to popular privately-run networks in South America like CNN and Univision. It is also intended as a spur toward South American integration. The network is jointly owned and funded by many countries: at first, Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (19%), and Uruguay (10%), with the prospect of other countries joining later. These countries as well as Brazil (which is working on its own international TV channel, TV Brasil) will collaborate on content and technology.
It's advisory council is formed by many international and regional intellectuals, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, poet Ernesto Cardenal, writers Eduardo Galeano and Tariq Ali, newspaper editor and historian Ignacio Ramonet, free software pioneer Richard Stallman, and actor Danny Glover."
Unfortunately it looks like they don't have any programming up on their website yet so unless your cable company decides to be subversive and carry it, those of us here in the US won't get to see it. Let's hope they start internet broadcasting soon!
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