https://www.telesurenglish.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesur
why you should know, right now particularly:
because the United States recently attacked Venezuela, abducted their president, and appears to now be waiting for a US-friendly coup to materialize there.
Tankie means authoritarian communist, although states that tankies support nowadays are nowhere near communism, but definitely are authoritarian.
News flash - just because you’re you don’t like the US doesn’t mean you have to love the governments of Cuba, Russia, Venezuela etc.
That is not news to me. But I am probably more lenient towards Cuba and Venezuela than most. Russia is just as bad as the USA these days. And Russia hunts socialists just as ferverently as the USA.