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Bolivia’s Historic Moment: Audio Slideshow

Carlos Lauría discusses the backstroy of this special report

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Radio reporter wounded while covering social protest

New York, September 13, 2007—Argentine radio reporter Adela Gómez was injured Wednesday after national border guards fired rubber bullets into a crowd of protesters blocking a road in the southern province of Santa Cruz. Gómez, a reporter with radio station FM XXI in the city of Caleta Olivia, about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) south of…

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Supreme Court ruling limits manipulation of state ads

New York, September 7, 2007—An Argentine Supreme Court ruling condemning the province of Neuquén for the withdrawal of state advertising from a critical daily will help protect the media from government manipulation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On Wednesday, Argentina’s highest tribunal ruled the government cannot suppress or substantially reduce official advertising to…

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Argentine radio journalist convicted on criminal slander charge

New York, September 4, 2007—The criminal slander conviction of an Argentine radio journalist is alarming and should be overturned on appeal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Monday’s ruling, by a judge in northwestern Salta province, also bars commentator Sergio Poma from working for one year. Judge Héctor Martínez handed Poma, owner of local…

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CPJ urges Argentine municipal government to reopen newspaper plant

Dear Mayor De la Quintana, The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express deep concern about the closure of the San Lorenzo-based daily El Observador’s printing plant ordered by your government in late July, which prompted the paper to stop publishing. CPJ believes the decision violates freedom of expression as enshrined in the Argentine constitution and in the provincial constitution of Santa Fe.

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update August 2007 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists

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Static in Venezuela

The Chavez administration pulls a broadcast license as it asserts media muscle

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Attacks on the Press in 2006: Introduction

By Joel SimonAs Venezuelan elections approached in November, President Hugo Chávez accused news broadcasters of engaging in a “psychological war to divide, weaken, and destroy the nation.” Their broadcast licenses, he said, could be pulled–no idle threat in a country where a vague 2004 media law allows the government to shut down stations for work…

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Attacks on the Press 2006: Argentina

ARGENTINA President Néstor Kirchner’s administration continued its practice of funneling government advertising to friendly news outlets and withholding it from critical media. Amid increased tension between Kirchner and the press, authorities were also accused of editorial interference in the abrupt cancellation of two independent shows on state-owned broadcast networks.

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CPJ Update

CPJ Update November 2007 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

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