Peter Krupa

The BBC just made a content sharing deal with Telesur. Telesur’s start-up fund was 70% Venezuelan oil money, and today it is owned by Venezuela (51%), Argentina (20%), Cuba (15%), Uruguay (10%), and Bolivia (5%).

The BBC seems to be under the impression that all state-owned media companies are like them: critical of their own government. I personally wouldn’t trust the Cuban 15 percent, but then again, maybe generic footage of happy brown people dancing is all the BBC wants anyway.