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Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM) is the public broadcasting organization of the Community of Madrid, Spain, operating television and radio services for the region. The Ente Público Radio Televisión Madrid was originally established in 1984 by Law 13/1984. The organization operates three channels: the TV station Telemadrid, the television channel La Otra, and the radio station Onda Madrid, providing news, cultural programming, and regional content to audiences in Madrid.
Telemadrid is a public television station that operates as the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). The channel began broadcasting on 2 May 1989. It offers general programming, including news, entertainment, cultural content, and regional coverage tailored to audiences in the Madrid area. In 2023, the broadcaster joined a group of Spanish media in broadcasting “China-Spain Cultural Journey” (中西文化之旅), a series of programs marking the 50th anniversary of China-Spain diplomatic relations, organized between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and the China Media Group (CMG), the mega-conglomerate under China’s Central Propaganda Department.
Organized around the 2025 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum (2025″一带一路”媒体合作论坛), a joint Chinese and foreign media interview team (中外媒体联合采访团) conducted multi-city site visits across China — reported in the CCP’s official People’s Daily on February 12, 2026. The government-facilitated journalist delegation toured five locations: State Power Investment’s Shizitan Hydroelectric Station in Chongqing, China Overseas Land’s Daji Lane commercial district (中海大吉巷商圈) in Beijing, Yili’s Yunnan dairy factory, Fenjiu Group’s distillery in Shanxi, and Great Wall Motors’ Xushui plant in Hebei. Participating foreign media included outlets from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Cuba, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, and Lesotho. “In China, I saw the process of technological development. The Shizitan Hydropower Station is evidence of modernized development,” said Catherine Gulua, founder and editor-in-chief of Georgia’s Mutavari Media Center, on her third documented China visit since 2023. A previous journalist tour, including Gulua, provided a clear opportunity for Chinese state media to promote positive views of the country in the voice of visiting journalists, a common tactic for organized tours, which are not purely educational.
Belteleradio Company, Belarus’s state-controlled broadcasting monopoly, signed a deepened cooperation agreement with the state-run China Media Group on September 2, 2025, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin. The agreement was among 14 bilateral media cooperation deals CMG struck with broadcasters from 13 countries during the summit, covering news reporting, joint programming, cultural activities, technological innovation, industry development, personnel exchanges, and media resource sharing. The CMG partnership with Belteleradio is part of China’s broader efforts to strengthen SCO media cooperation.
Grupo Octubre is an Argentine multimedia conglomerate created and directed by Víctor Santa María, Secretary General of the building workers union Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de Edificios de Renta y Horizontal (SUTERH) and former president of the Peronist Partido Justicialista in Buenos Aires. Administered by the Fundación Octubre de Trabajadores de Edificios, established in 1991, the group claims a unique ownership structure as the only media conglomerate in the world owned by a labor union rather than individual proprietors. Describing itself as “a creative and plural space that develops, brings together and promotes different cultural, educational, solidarity and communication undertakings,” the organization began with cultural and educational initiatives before expanding into media. Holdings include Página 12 newspaper (acquired 2016), Caras y Caretas magazine (relaunched 2005), El Planeta Urbano magazine, AM 750 radio, FM Malena 89.1, FM Aspen 102.3, OctubreTV streaming platform, and Latinoamérica Prensa portal. Educational institutions include the Instituto Superior de Octubre (2002) and Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo (2013). The group also operates Editorial Octubre publishing house, Caras y Caretas Sala cultural venue, and manages Sportivo Barracas football club.
The Government of Tanzania operates as a unitary dominant-party presidential republic under the Constitution of Tanzania, with executive power vested in the president who serves as both head of state and head of government. The Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has maintained single-party dominance since independence in 1961, operating as what observers describe as a de facto one-party state despite constitutional amendments in 1992 allowing multiparty politics. Tanzania comprises the mainland (formerly Tanganyika) and the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago, which merged in 1964 to form the United Republic. The government operates from the capital Dodoma, though Dar es Salaam remains the largest city and commercial centre. The 2025 general election saw the incumbent president declared winner with 98% of the vote amid widespread allegations of fraud and protests that were handled with lethal force that resulted in hundreds killed. The National Assembly serves as the unicameral legislature with 393 members.
Página 12 is an Argentine newspaper published in Buenos Aires, founded on May 25, 1987, by journalists Jorge Lanata and Ernesto Tiffenberg. The newspaper established itself as a progressive, left-leaning alternative publication known for investigative journalism and critical analysis of political and social issues. Since 2016, Página 12 has been owned by Grupo Octubre, a multimedia company created by Víctor Santa María, Secretary General of the building workers union SUTERH and former president of the Partido Justicialista in Buenos Aires. The newspaper is described as Argentina’s fourth most visited news portal and maintains a readership primarily composed of individuals aged 18-52 from medium and upper-middle socioeconomic groups. Página 12 has distinguished itself through revelations of various scandals while maintaining a critical stance against corruption, resulting in multiple journalism awards. In 2018, the Polish League Against Defamation sued Página 12 using Poland’s controversial Holocaust law over an article about the Jedwabne massacre. Javier Lewkowicz, a journalist and economist from the University of Buenos Aires who has worked at Página 12 since 2009, serves as economics editor and participated in the February 2026 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum journalist delegation.
Granma is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, established on October 3, 1965, through the merger of two previous papers — Revolución (the organ of the 26th of July Movement) and Hoy (the voice of the People’s Socialist Party). The newspaper’s first issue was published October 4, 1965, and it takes its name from the yacht Granma that carried Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, launching the Cuban Revolution. Headquartered in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, the newspaper publishes daily editions in Spanish along with weekly international editions in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian, also printed in Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Granma became the first Cuban media organization to establish a website in August 1996. Yailin Orta Rivera has served as editor-in-chief since December 2017, appointed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. The newspaper explicitly functions as the party’s communication channel, stating it is “loyal to the Party’s policy, its ethical principles” in covering Cuban society and international relations. Deputy editor-in-chief Leidys María participated in the February 2026 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum journalist delegation touring Chinese industrial facilities.
The Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba, established on October 3, 1965, as the successor to the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution. Formed through the merger of the 26th of July Movement, the Popular Socialist Party, and parts of the Revolutionary Directory, the party governs Cuba as an authoritarian one-party state where dissidence and political opposition are prohibited and repressed. The Cuban constitution designates the PCC as “the leading force of society and of the state.” The party’s highest body is the Party Congress, which convenes every five years, while day-to-day governance is vested in the Politburo and Central Committee. Headquartered at the Palacio de la Revolución in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, the party operates under Marxism-Leninism, Castroism, and Guevarism, maintaining a state socialist command economy despite long-term U.S. embargo. The party’s official newspaper is Granma, and it maintains mass organizations including the Young Communist League and the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC). The PCC pursues interventionist foreign policy supporting left-wing movements globally and maintains extensive medical diplomacy programs across the developing world.