“Argentine President Javier Milei and his administration must immediately refrain from attacking press freedom, stigmatizing journalists, and allow journalists to do their jobs freely and without restrictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday.
During his first 100 days in office, a report by FOPEA, a local press freedom organization, found that four out of every 10 attacks on the press involved Milei or his ministers. In a new report, FOPEA recorded another 17 press freedom attacks between March 19 and April 18 in which Milei was responsible for 53% of the cases, using stigmatizing language to describe journalists, such as ‘corrupt,’ ‘liars,’ and ‘extortioners,’ and encouraging administrative officials not to sit for interviews, FOPEA President Paula Moreno told CPJ in a phone interview.
‘This generates an asymmetric relationship that exposes journalists in a very dangerous way,’ Moreno said.”
