ABSTRACT
In spite of technological advances and research carried out in the theory of communication, Latin America continues to be dependent in the field of international information services. Two main approaches to the problem of international information may be said to characterize this study. The first is a quantitative and percentile analysis of activity by transnational press agencies and international media in Latin America, together with some assessments of the importance in the region of news from the Third World and from industrialized countries. The second is an evaluation of the information, analyzing its characteristics and drawing attention to the way in which some of the news is over-emphasized while other news is played down or simply not reported at all. The study shows that the international information available to Latin American newspapers today offers more possibilities of choice than was the case in the 1960s.
