Argentina

Forty years after his murder, the often surreal life of Argentina’s most renowned journalist-activist still captivates the imagination of the world.

IFEX speaks to the co-founder of “Presentes” about Latin American gender policies, stigmatising coverage and conservative pressures.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.”