A Latin American Voice to Counter Corporate Media

Congressional leaders are all atwitter over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' new satellite television station, Telesur, which has begun broadcasting four hours a day, financed by its host country and also Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba.

Telesur hopes to be accepted regionally, and promises news through Latino eyes, produced by professional journalists from the region.

Telesur is likened to Al Jazeera, the Arabic satellite news channel headquartered in Qatar and extremely popular throughout the Middle East. Al Jazeera saw two Iraq wars through Arab eyes, and the Pentagon and other U.S. leaders didn't like what Arabs saw.

They may not like everything that Latinos see on Telesur, either.