The UBA presented a report on freedom of expression, one year after Javier Milei’s government

“We believe that this work is key to specify each of the attacks and the patterns of which the colleagues are being victimswhich in turn affect the right to information of the entire Argentine society,” he said. Zuliana Lainezvice president of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

One year of the Milei government: the UBA published a report on freedom of expression

Within the text reference is made to the term “cultural battle”which the Government installed in its speech, and on the agenda, throughout the first year of the libertarian’s mandate. “The emptying and attempts to close media outlets and public organizations linked to communication and culture have been a constant since the first weeks of management,” the document states.

The letter also denounces the “almost zero” attempts to implement Law on Equity in the Representation of Genders in Communication Services of the Argentine Republicregulated in 2023, and the “direct prohibition” exercised by the National Government in its different departments in reference to “the use of various forms of non-sexist language.”

“It is a curtailment of freedom of expression of the workers, expressed with particular emphasis on state-run mediasuch as Public Television and Deputies TV,” they stated.

This production was carried out within the framework of the project “Union strengthening and security in challenging times for press workers in Argentina” of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) with the support of the Fund for Democracy and Labor.

The Communication Department investigated and collected information together with the Argentine Federation of Press Workers (FATPren) and to Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBA). They listed, among the events that occurred during this first year, the “censorship, harassment, precariousness and dismissals of journalists; retraction of communication policies and dismantling of media and public organizations; obstacles in access to public information”, among others.

“ANDThe record of what happened takes on fundamental value for the futureboth to establish the corresponding responsibilities on the part of state and parastatal actors and to try to put a stop to these rights violations,” the text concludes.

The Government published a video that summarizes the first year of Javier Milei’s management

President Javier Milei is celebrating his first year as president of Argentina after taking office on December 10, 2023. On his anniversary, From the Office of the President they published a video compilation of the most important events that occurred during the first 365 days of administration.

In detail, the video shows different moments of the President and other administration officials, with epic music in the background and different fragments of statements by the libertarian leader. Caste, inflation, security, Base Law and chainsaw, the concepts that the Government chose to highlight in its commemoration.

Justice rejected SIGEN’s request for the UBA to present documentation on the use of funds

The Government received this Monday a setback in Justice after they rejected the precautionary measure requested by the General Audit Office of the Nation (Sigen) against the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) to expose data about internal regulations and documents on financial movements.

He Federal Administrative Contentious Court No. 3headed by the magistrate Santiago Carrilloargued that “the claims analyzed exceed the limited space of knowledge inherent to this type of process and would imply a preview of the underlying issue, an aspect that must be judged within a framework of greater debate and evidence.”