Al-Jazeera is rapidly refining the global news map by inspiring the emergence of
regional and global counter-hegemonic news networks in developing regions. In 2005, Hugo
Chavez launched Telesur (Spanish for “The New Television Station of the South”) in Latin
America as a counterweight to the Western-centered Spanish-speaking CNN and Univision.
Telesur, whose slogan is “Our North is the South,” is co-owned by Venzuela, Argentina,
Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Nicaragua and broadcasts to most of the Latin
American continent.