Foro de Periodismo Argentino

The owner of Radio Génesis in Formosa province, Argentina, suspects that individuals linked to the local and provincial authorities may be behind a fire deliberately set at the station.

FOPEA is concerned about a fire set in a car belonging to Raúl and Víctor Cortez, journalists for the VideoTar TV station in Tartagal, Salta on Monday 18 March 2013.

Over 30 IFEX members express concern at a set of proposals put forth by the government of Ecuador and due to be discussed on 8 March in Ecuador that seek to reform the OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.

FOPEA is concerned by two incidents that took place on 20 December involving attacks on media vehicles in Rosario and San Carlos de Bariloche.

FOPEA stands with Argentinian radio journalist Daniel Polaczinski, who has been receiving threats, some of which may have come from a local councillor. Many of the threats are anonymous, but one of the numbers that threats have been sent from belongs to the head of the local municipal council.

In the early morning of 8 November 2012, several copies of the newspaper Hoy, based in La Plata, were burned. A kiosk that sells the paper in Buenos Aires was completely destroyed by a fire after vendors working for the paper’s distribution company received threats.

A photojournalist was covering the arrival of some robbers at an Argentinian police station when he was recognised by the police, beaten and threatened.

According to the police report, Argentinian journalist Aníbal Palma was assaulted and threatened with death by local media businessman Gregorio Monzón and two of his employees.