from BBC
To some, that sounds like propaganda. Last year, the chairman of the US Senate's foreign relations committee, Richard Lugar, referred to the planned channel as a vehicle to spread President Hugo Chavez's authoritarian message around the region.
Alberto Ravell, the head of Venezuela's main private news channel, Globovision, agrees.
"You're going to have a view of Latin America, but you're going to have the view these governments want you to have, not an impartial view," he said.
He told the BBC that all the people working at Telesur are leftist.
"They're all in one political position, and that's the political position of our president that wants to be not only the president of Venezuela but the leader of Latin America."
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