Statement

On August 18 and 19 the plants of the two dailies, La Nación and Clarín, were blocked, resulting in La Nación’s and Clarín’s impaired distribution on Saturday and in their complete failure to be distributed on Sunday. This took place amidst the direct action launched by the Newspapers and Magazines Distributors and Retailers Union demanding…

Fundación LED – Libertad de Expresión + Democracia (Freedom of Speech + Democracy) are pleased to send you a Midyear Report on Limits to Freedom of Speech, Argentina 2012. It presents a survey of the cases of limitations to the exercise of freedom of speech in Argentina recorded during the first half of 2012, whether…

On June 21, the LED Foundation submitted a request to the Chief of Cabinet Ministry for the inclusion of a spot in the program Fútbol para Todos (Football For All) with the same duration as another spot about the Argentine Supreme Court ruling of May 22, in connection with Section 161 of Law 26,522, which…

The LED Foundation has expressed its concern about the attachment levied on Globovision assets by the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela. When analyzed in the overall regional context, and in particular given the tough times that the media is undergoing in Venezuela, such action clearly amounts to a restriction of citizen’s rights to freedom…

The LED Foundation draws citizen attention to authoritarian attitudes by different administrations in this region concerning state action communications. The unfortunate episode when a public official in Ecuador was forced to excuse himself from taking part in a radio program, as he was ordered to do over the phone, is an example of the escalating…