[NYTr] Nica: Ernesto Cardenal Denounces US Control of the Global Media
 
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:36:06 -0600 (CST)

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Cardenal Denounces US Control of Media

Santiago de Chile, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina) The famous Nicaraguan
intellectual Ernesto Cardenal said here that Latin America and the
whole world are misinformed because of the control of the media by the
United States.

In an interview broadcast by Radio Cooperative he emphasized that 90
percent of the world information comes from about nine US information
transnational companies that only spread those news which they are
interested in.

The 82-year old poet and religious man said his country does not
receive enough information about Chile because US transnationals do not
permit it and this is at the bottom of disintegration in Latin America.

In his visit to Chile to attend the International Meeting of Writers at
the 27 International Santiago Book Fair, he reiterated that the world
population depends on what those transnational companies want to
broadcast or not.

In this sense he highlighted the importance of Telesur network, founded
in 2005 to promote Latin American and Caribbean integration.

"Telesur has a mission, to face misinformation among us and the need to
have our own information and not that of transnational companies, that
is to say the enemies, if we can call them like that too," said the
writer.

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