Why BBC ignores Latin America?

Ah, pinguin, you see conspiracies everywhere! Who said that BBc is supposed to be an international broadcasting corporation that is has to give equal coverage to people everywhere, based on their population? What is this, the equal-opportunity-for-all-humanity channel? If this was the case, then 20% of their news should be about China...

Look, this is a British company that wants to do two things: 1. make money, 2. transmit a message. For both purposes, the most important thing to consider is the audience. The audience for their English programs is necessarily people who speak English and who have an interest in the news being shown, either because it affects them personally or because they have some sort of business or political interest in a region. The people who speak English people mostly live in the UK, the US and the rest of the Commonwealth. Meaning that a large chunk of their news will be dedicated to places such as the UK, US, Canada, Australia, India and much of Africa and the Caribbean. Also, Europe will get a lot of coverage, because it is so closely connected with the UK. Now, outside of those regions, in today's world, the most dynamic region for business is probably East Asia, so it will get a good chunk of the coverage as well. The Middle East is a hot-spot of big-news stories and has a lot of importance in a geo-political context.

So the regions that get left out will be Latin America, Central Asia, about half of Africa ( the countries which used to be French, Belgian, Portuguese or Italian colonies), Indonesia, the Caucasus, most of South-East Asia (with the exception of Malaysia) and Oceania. I believe that the rest of the regions which get left out greatly exceed Latin America both in surface and population, so your argument about Latin America deserving more airtime because of it's population and surface area does not hold much ground.

Also, the thing about Latin America is that most people who speak English who will be interested in the region are American and they don't watch much BBC. CNN already has a stranglhold on that market.