HispanTV

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HispanTV
UHF
(Puerto Rico)		Channel 33.1 (Fajardo; WRUA)
Channel 18.2 (Naranjito; WECN)

HispanTV is an Iranian Spanish language news channel operated by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran's state-controlled broadcaster. It began broadcasting in December 2011.[2]

HispanTV's programming has been distributed in

Arabic
satellite TV station also owned by the Iranian state.

HispanTV has foreign journalists from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Russia, Spain, and Venezuela. It also has journalists from Iran who speak Spanish.

The stated goal of HispanTV is to offer an opportunity for cultural exchange through television and web broadcasts between Latin-American citizens of Iranian descent, Hispanics of the United States, Muslim minorities of the Hispanophone world, and Spanish-speaking foreign residents in Iran.[3]

Pablo Iglesias Turrión, host of HispanTV program Fort Apache.

Controversy

Sanctions

In July 2013, HispanTV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites.[citation needed] HispanTV is no longer aired in Spain as Spain is a member of the EU and HispanTV now exclusively broadcasts in Hispanic America. HispanTV "tried to bypass sanctions by providing live feeds of its networks through YouTube".[4] HispanTV's YouTube channel has now been blocked due to pressure to Google by the ADL.[5]

Antisemitism allegations

The

anti-Semitism".[4] HispanTV claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic "is the result of a Zionist plot...This virus serves Zionism's goals to decrease the number of people in the world and prevent it from increasing."[6][7]

According to the Antisemitism in Venezuela 2013 report by the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations (CAIV) which focuses on the issue of

TeleSUR, Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), Alba TV, La Radio del Sur, Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV), YVKE Mundial, Correo del Orinoco and Ciudad CCS.[8]

The documentary, based on a conspiracy theory,

Plan Andinia: A New Jewish State ?, by Asela Villar, suggests Israel is slowly planning to invade Patagonia. It is aired on Real Stories network, belonging to Little Dot Studios and All3Media
.

References

  1. ^ a b "Iran launches Spanish-language Hispan TV". Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  2. ^ "Hispan TV comenzará a retransmitir el miércoles". hispantv.com. 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2011-12-17.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "QUÉ ES HISPANTV". www.hispantv.com. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  4. ^ a b "Iran's Hispan TV Follows Press TV's Footsteps With Live Stream On YouTube". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  5. ^ HispanTV. ""Lobby sionista" busca el bloqueo de HispanTV en Youtube". HISPANTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  6. ^ "International Scapegoating of Israel and Jews for Spreading COVID-19". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Informe: El nuevo coronavirus es resultado de un complot sionista". HISPANTV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 May 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Antisemitisim in Venezuela 2013". Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.

External links

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