Monopoly slayers and freedom fighters | Marcelo Garcia

Argentina is the latest Latin American country to battle the media. At stake is the way political representation will evolve The approval of new media legislation in Argentina is the latest in a series of head-on clashes between Latin American governments and big media. It is a war between self-declared monopoly slayers and freedom (of expression) fighters. Their fighting ground is the public. And their first casualty is information. Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, comfortably won the congressional chapter of an all-out battle they waged against the country's media powers-that-be. The 44-24 vote in the Senate after 20 hours of debate last Saturday comes just over three months after an electoral defeat in midterm elections. The bill seeks to revamp... [read full story]                    

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