President Javier Milei he came back to criticize Argentine journaliststhrough a post on social networks with which he expressed solidarity with a Spanish journalist after denouncing that he was “persecuted” by his counterpart from Spain, Pedro Sanchez.
The Argentine president expressed his solidarity with Vito Quileswho is persecuted by the Sánchez government “after reporting that one of his ministers used an official car to go to a Taylor Swift recital“.
The young Spanish journalist said on social networks that he was going to initiate legal action against the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente, for “threatening” him and saying that he was going to “severely pay.”
This is the same official from the Sánchez government who, during a television interview, suggested that President Milei consumed some type of illegal substances, which later led to a diplomatic escalation with a break in relations between Spain and Argentina.
“If an official of our government wanted to put a journalist in prison for reporting news, all the local progress, from Tenembaum and Longobardi to Novaresio and Lanata, I would be crying dictatorship. But not. What is a left-handed government like? they act distracted“he added.
Then he finished his post with a harsh phrase against Argentine journalists: “In the end they are all accomplices of authoritarian socialism.”
It is not the first time that the Argentine head of state questions a group of journalists. Even his harsh criticism earned him warnings from the Association of Argentine Journalism Entities (ADEPA), the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA).
Furthermore, in April, the National Academy of Journalism (ANP) published a one-page petition in the country’s main newspapers, where it maintains that in Argentina “journalists and media outlets are being harassed, insulted and defamed from the top of power.” .
The letter was released on World Press Freedom Day, by the entity that brings together several representative entities of journalists, who warned about official restrictions on freedom of expression and the press, which come from the Milei government.
One of Milei’s toughest questions to the press left him involved in a harsh controversy, when he posted a long statement in which he assured that they are going to “remove” journalists from “that Ivory Tower in which they believe they live.” . And he added that “journalism has been corrupted, dirty and prostituted in the heat of the envelopes and the official guidelines.”
Milei said this in the face of the reaction of journalists and press entities for his criticism against the journalist Romina Manguel, as well as his explicit desire for Editorial Perfil to “go bankrupt”, whose newspaper he called a “pasquín” and its owner Jorge Fontevecchia described as “tintureli ”, during his recent interview with Alejandro Fantino. There she assured that the leaders of La Libertad Avanza did not have to give interviews to certain journalists who “seek to destroy” that political space.
“The problem of many journalists with whom we make up La Libertad Avanza is that we do not owe anything to anyone. We do not have business with anyone. And we are not going to remain silent in the face of operations, lies, slander, insults or defamation. We are going to answer. We are going to tell our truth. We are going to get them down from that Ivory Tower in which they think they live. Because freedom of expression means that no one can stop us from speaking. Not even the sacred journalists. that moment.
The presidential argument is that journalism has become accustomed to “that they must be treated as prophets of the unique and incontrovertible truth,” who cannot be criticized, because “if someone dares to commit that imprudence, they are punished in unison by all the members of the corporation and its groups.
Now, he took advantage of the young Spanish journalist’s complaint to attack the journalists of LN +, of the Mitre, Con Vos and Rivadavia radio stations.
