Copycat Chavistas: Kirchners Seek to Impose Censorship in Argentina In the run-up to her (or perhaps husband and former President Nestor Kirchner’s) expected bid for re-election in 2011, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is flexing her government’s muscles to pressure the media for favorable coverage. Opposition leaders, however, call it an attempt to silence critics. Fernandez is sending draft legislation to Argentina’s Congress mandating governmental regulation of “the production, sale and distribution of newsprint in the public interest.”
Argentina takeover of paper mill heats up feud with media
BUENOS AIRES -- In the strongest attack on the media since the country's dictatorship, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has moved to take over the country's largest newsprint mill that provides paper to most of Argentina's newspapers.
Feud With Clarin Deepens Bond Rout as JPMorgan Says Sell: Argentina Credit Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s growing confrontation with the country’s largest newspaper is exacerbating the biggest tumble in its dollar bonds in two months and prompting JPMorgan Chase & Co. to recommend investors cut holdings.
DNA helps resolve crimes of Argentina's Dirty WarBUENOS AIRES, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Small red coffins are stacked inside a bleak office just blocks from Argentina's Congress, a chilling reminder of the thousands of people kidnapped and killed during the bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Inside the boxes are the bones of recently identified victims of the so-called Dirty War, waiting to be picked up by relatives for a proper burial three decades after they were murdered by their own government.
Pressed EVER since Néstor Kirchner became Argentina’s president in 2003, he and Cristina Fernández, his wife and successor, have ruthlessly divided and conquered their political rivals. Their biggest remaining adversary is the Clarín Group, the country’s dominant media conglomerate. The Kirchners have tried to cripple the firm after its television stations and Clarín newspaper gave sympathetic coverage to farmers striking over a tax increase in 2008. During that dispute, the government’s supporters plastered Buenos Aires with posters accusing the company of lying and of serving landed oligarchs. One year later the state broadcaster enticed Argentina’s football association to tear up its contract with a Clarín-owned cable channel and put its matches on public television instead. And last October Congress passed a law expanding the government’s control over broadcast media, which would force Clarín to divest key assets. However, legal challenges have delayed its implementation.
Lionel Messi hails the arrival of Argentina pal Javier Mascherano to BarcelonaLionel Messi described Javier Mascherano's arrival to Barcelona as a 'joy' following his Argentina team-mate £22m move from Liverpool.
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