Telesur & Latin Americans Knowing Themselves

The Executive Director of Telesur, had had enough of Latin American television stations not tackling complex but essential social issues, but only ever wishing to attract the large audiences...
In his view the biggest problem was that 'we as Latin Americans dont know eachother'. We didnt hear their voices, we saw no images. Everything we saw was from North America, or was the North American take on our neighbours, such as Colombia, it was only about the US's focus on the drugs trade.
He found it necessary to retrieve their memories, their roots, and to create alternative television
- 'we are multi-coloured, not black and white as American television portrayed'
More importantly, it is very difficult to talk about regional integration if we dont know eachother!
He wanted to recover and retrieve their origins and journalism based on debate and pluralism.
A dream?
They need to build and shape things together on a daily bsis, following a bottom-up approach to finding solutions to the problems of marginalised populations, although they werent sure what such a society would look like, they felt it had to be done.

They have been asked to advise on setting up a similar television network fro Africa, but they refused. They can share the experience they had, but they cannot and woudl not do it for another region. Each has to do their own. Their way.

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