00:00 And to face contemporary challenges, Telesur is taking on technological improvements and
00:04 new formats in its effort to amplify the stories that others prefer to keep quiet.
00:10 Details in the following report.
00:13 A dream come true.
00:14 To tell the story of the South with its own voice.
00:17 The yearning of millions from Latin America and the Caribbean to be visible found in Telesur
00:23 the possibility of starring in stories that before would have been deliberately invisibilized
00:29 by the corporate media.
00:31 In this 18 years, Telesur has become a genuine expression of formerly invisible realities,
00:41 telling the stories of nobodies of our continent and around the world.
00:49 Realities that have been manipulated and hidden by the big media outlets.
00:55 Telesur began as a television channel on July 24, 2005 at the initiative of commanders Hugo
01:01 Chavez and Fidel Castro.
01:03 In tune with the challenges of the new times, it became an informative multimedia.
01:08 The fact that Telesur is now 18 years old is basically the consolidation of what was
01:15 once the dream of commander Chavez and that now allows us to be brothers and sisters and
01:21 to take that sense of brotherhood to different parts of the world, from Africa to a good
01:27 part of Europe.
01:28 And it is not just about broadcasting an idea, but all the cultural wealth that we have in
01:34 Latin America and the Caribbean.
01:36 And for that, without a doubt, Telesur has been a key piece.
01:40 With more than 20 correspondents and collaborators around the world, Telesur speaks the languages
01:46 of our region.
01:53 It reaches Europe, the Middle East and Africa with its Spanish broadcasting service.
01:58 With its English broadcasting service, it reaches the English-speaking Caribbean and
02:03 Africa.
02:04 It also distributes content for social networks in Portuguese.
02:08 My wish is that we continue to move forward, to go deeper, to advance more, to unify our
02:13 work, which is the most important thing.
02:15 And my wish is to continue to fulfill another 18 years of work.
02:21 In order to build its own communication agenda, this multimedia company maintains alliances,
02:27 cooperation agreements and collaborative journalism projects with media such as CGTN from China,
02:34 Russia Today, Isban TV from Iran, Al Majedin from Lebanon and the television of the BRICS.
02:40 It also provides high-quality content to broadcasters with that production capacity for major global
02:45 events.
02:46 Telesur came to break some of that hegemony and it came to build democracy because when
02:53 there is more than one version of a news event, it helps to create in the listener, in the
03:02 viewer, a broader vision of the facts.
03:06 More than 600 workers of this multimedia company at its headquarters in Caracas, its production
03:12 centers in Havana, Mexico, Quito and in its offices around the world resisted during the
03:18 last five years the impact of coercive measures against the member states.
03:24 My wish is that we continue to grow as people, as professionals.
03:30 Telesur has been seen as an opportunity for many countries that have been invisible.
03:38 Telesur has opened those windows.
03:40 The challenge now is to move from resistance to creative growth in order to multiply the
03:45 informative strength of the multimedia with emphasis on innovation and journalistic quality
03:51 of its contents, formats and platforms.
03:56 Telesur has always been in a technological growth and let's say in terms of its expansion.
04:05 It is broadcasted around the world, this is not a secret that has been permanent.
04:12 This new Telesur studio, Studio D, GW Studio, we have called it that.
04:18 It is a studio that will produce podcasts in this case.
04:22 Thus, day by day, Telesur makes history and tells it with a tune of diverse voices and
04:29 images from the global south.
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