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...become the broadcasting voice of the Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Ch??vez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration and a rejection of Yanqui-based TV like CNN en Español. "U.S. and European networks offer a good product, but they tend to view Latin America in black-and-white terms--and usually black, like disasters...
Critics fret that Telesur may become a teleforum for Ch??vez's populist politics, but Aharonian insists it will be balanced, even when it comes to Ch??vez's revolutionary government. And while Telesur plans a mix of news, documentaries, sports, Latin movies and dance-music shows like Sones y Pasiones (Sounds and Passions), others doubt its viability, given the Soviet-sounding titles of programs like Trabajo y Tierra (Work and Land). But in its first year, Telesur, which will be seen on local and cable stations from Mexico to Argentina as well as Miami, expects to bring...
Hearing that bluster, one might assume that Ch??vez fancies himself a 21st century Fidel Castro. Ch??vez does idolize Castro, rarely missing an opportunity to be seen with the Cuban leader--like last week, when, with Castro at his side, he announced a regional "solidarity" fund to give cash-strapped Caribbean countries cheaper access to Venezuelan oil. Although Ch??vez was democratically elected, he flirts with autocracy. And he indulges in Castroesque paranoia about the U.S.: This summer Venezuelan civilians are training alongside the army in antiaircraft and antitank warfare so they will be able to thwart the next...
...that, Ch??vez is not, so far, a dictator. But he has one thing that Castro did not, and that is why his rhetoric is being taken more seriously from the barrios of Caracas to the hallways of Washington. Ch??vez controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is the U.S.'s fourth largest foreign supplier. As oil prices hit $60 per bbl. this summer, his government reaped a multibillion-dollar windfall. Ch??vez has used that, and his rising prestige in the region, to lead a political shift in Latin America that is buzzing like a Che Guevara...
There is so far no evidence that Ch??vez is financing the rippling revolts. But while the Bush Administration continues to regard Ch??vez as a "negative force," as Rice calls him, some U.S. officials feel it is time to stop dismissing him as a hothead with a dubious popular mandate--especially because he is likely to win another six-year term next year. Ch??vez "may be a radical," says a high-ranking U.S. official, "but he's a radical with deep pockets...