Argentina / Americas

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…

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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JANUARY 7, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 María Laura Benítez, Multimedios Nuevo Mundo THREATENED Benítez, a journalist for the media company Multimedios Nuevo Mundo based out of the eastern city of Colón, was threatened with death after alleging police abuse during the Canal 8 news program “Nuevo Mundo,” according to press reports.

DECEMBER 26, 2006 Posted: December 29, 2006 Laura Rómoli, Agencia Nova ATTACKED, THREATENED Rómoli, a reporter for Agencia Nova, was attacked by a woman and two men who burst into the news agency’s office days after a report on alleged abuses at a local orphanage in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province.

DECEMBER 20, 2006 Posted: December 27, 2006 Eduardo Manrique, Diario de Cuyo ATTACKED Unidentified individuals broke into Manrique’s home in the northwestern city of San Juan early in the morning of December 20 and set the journalist’s car on fire, reported Diario de Cuyo, for which Manrique directs the police section.

New York, September 29, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by death threats against a media company owner and a prominent columnist, both harsh critics of President Néstor Kirchner’s administration. CPJ today called on Argentine authorities to immediately denounce the threats and to launch a thorough investigation. Joaquín Morales Solá, columnist for the daily…

By Mathew HansenHundreds of journalists have been killed over 15 years, many on the orders of government officials. Few cases are ever solved. In the Fall/Winter 2006 edition of Dangerous Assignments

Mr. President: The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the cancellation of two independent shows on state-owned media amid allegations of government censorship and editorial interference.

JUNE 30, 2006 Posted: July 17, 2006 Nicolás Revello, Tiempo Sur ATTACKED Revello, a photographer for the Río Gallegos-based daily Tiempo Sur in the southern province of Santa Cruz, was attacked by local security forces while covering the arrest of soccer fans who were protesting after the national team was disqualified from the 2006 World…