Ana Fornaro: LGBTQI+ communities subjected to daily ordeals
IFEX speaks to the co-founder of “Presentes” about Latin American gender policies, stigmatising coverage and conservative pressures.
Two online media outlets suffer break-in at shared office in Buenos Aires
“We are not into paranoia but we are not naive either,” said Revista Anfibia editor Martin Alé. “Of the 20 offices in this building, it was the one with two media outlets that was targeted. This was an act of theft and an act of vandalism.”
IAPA protests actions against journalists in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
The Inter American Press Association is urging authorities in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina to investigate cases of intimidation of journalists in those countries that are seriously restricting press freedom.
IAPA protests actions against journalists in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
The Inter American Press Association is urging authorities in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina to investigate cases of intimidation of journalists in those countries that are seriously restricting press freedom.
Newspaper and radio station offices damaged during forced entry linked to ownership dispute
A statement by the cooperative running Tiempo Argentino said that the men who entered the offices “destroyed important equipment crucial to the editorial process with the clear intention of obstructing the dissemination of the newspaper and its web production.”
Attack on TV team in Argentina
The Crónica TV team was covering a demonstration transportation company drivers when they were beaten, kicked and attacked with stones by people belonging to the Union Tranvarios Automotor.
Argentinian journalist and wife brutally attacked in presumed retaliation for drug trafficking reporting
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack Friday on the home of Argentine radio journalist Sergio Hurtado, who reported on drug trafficking. The assailants ordered Hurtado to stop talking about the local drug trade.
How Argentine broadcast law rewards friendly outlets and discriminates against critics
As some media owners divest under the media law’s anti-monopoly provisions, people close to the administration have snapped up many of these properties and licenses.
No to Internet censorship in Argentina
In an effort to promote tolerance and equality in Argentina, online censorship could become a reality. Argentina’s House of Representatives is currently debating a series of reforms to the National Anti-discrimination Act, a bill that was enacted in 1988.
Buenos Aires censors and raids the technologists fixing its flawed e-voting system
Instead of addressing the flaws or postponing deployment of a controversial e-voting system, the Buenos Aires authorities have chosen instead to silence and intimidate critics of the system’s unfixed problems.
Election law forces Argentinian newspapers to give free space to political parties
The Inter American Press Association has condemned a decision by the Higher Court of Justice of the Argentine province of Córdoba that rejected legal claims of unconstitutionality of electoral laws that require publications to grant free space to political parties at election times.
Argentinian author on trial for allegedly plagiarising Borges in literary experiment
Pablo Katchadjian is being prosecuted for “intellectual property fraud” on the basis of his 2009 short experimental book El Aleph Engordado, his expansion of Jorge Luis Borges’ El Aleph.
President’s chief of staff discredits media outlet as political opponent in Argentina
During a press conference in which he complained of a “political confrontation” by “opposition media”, Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich tore up two pages of Clarín, which on Sunday had published articles about the death of public prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
Journalists under pressure in reporting on death of prosecutor in Argentina
Journalists covering the sensitive issue of the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman fear backlash. One journalist fled the country, only to have his travel details publicised.
Bill in Argentinian legislature could give online platforms power to censor users
A bill introduced by members of the governing party would require Web sites and digital platforms to block “the dissemination of messages with discriminatory content … produced by the users.”
Replica of coffin placed outside home of journalist’s parents in Argentina
Journalist Leonel Alberto Rodriguez has been the target of a series of recent threats which stem from a case he uncovered concerning a sexual assault accusation against La Banda’s former mayor, Héctor Eduardo Ruiz.