Telesur: comunicação, contra-hegemonia e integração regional na América Latina

Abstract

The present work presents a reflection on the forms of communication and information dissemination policies in Latin America, through the television channel Telesur. The investigation considered a brief analysis of the political situation in the region, at the time of the founding of Telesur and the decline of US hegemony and sought to assess the possibilities of analyzing the different regional integration initiatives. Analytically, the theoretical contributions of Marxism, in particular the contribution of Antonio Gramsci was considered to understand how the means of communication work as an institution of the superstructure, acting as a hegemony apparatus and subordinated to the current economic power, as well as investigating the possibilities of functioning as well as a counter-hegemony force, depending on the political-economic context in which they are inserted.