Argentina: Govt. censors TeleSUR Channel

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The Javier Milei government decides to remove TeleSUR from the programming grid of Open Digital Television. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 The Argentine government has decided to remove Telesur Channel from the programming grid

00:04 of Open Digital Television.

00:06 The measure, announced in a letter sent by the Comptroller of Public Television, Diego

00:10 Schaher, invokes the power provided for an Article 2.2 of the Cooperation Agreement signed

00:17 on November 20, 2020.

00:19 The media censorship directed against Telesur in Argentina represents a serious attack on

00:25 the right to information, which limits access to dissident voices, restricts the plurality

00:31 of information, undermines the possibility of forming informed opinions and participating

00:36 in public debate in a scenario where diversity of opinion is fundamental to the functioning

00:41 of a democratic society.

00:42 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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