At dawn on May 11 strangers fired from a car at Cablevisión Headquarters in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The bullets hit the Company´s open 24 hours call center—there were fortunately no casualties. Cablevisión Headquarters Attacked Fundación LED (Libertad de Expresión + Democracia) has condemned the attack against the headquarters of Cablevisión (the cable…
Opinion Piece Published by Clarín – Monday, May 7, 2013 – OPINION – DEBATE People´s Rights Suffocated by Information Clamps BY SILVANA GIUDICI FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PRESIDENT OF FUNDACION LED (LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION + DEMOCRACIA) When the urge to control narrative is almighty, the basic mechanisms of…
It is because of the Windhoek Declaration that May 3 has been declared the World Press Freedom Day. The Declaration of Windhoek promoted the establishment, maintenance and strengthening of independent, pluralistic and free media as something indispensable for the development and maintenance of democracy in a country, as well as for economic development. Fundación LED (Libertad…
As a member of the Red Latinoamericana en Defensa de la Libertad de Expresión (in Spanish, Latin American network for the Defense of Freedom of Expression), Fundación LED (Libertad de Expresión + Democracia) has shown contempt for Government Parliamentarians of Venezuela who refused to let opposition representatives take the floor. Beyond the acts of violence…
Fundación LED (Libertad de Expresión + Democracia) has showed contempt forRafael Correa´s (the President of Ecuador) authoritarian demeanortowards Fundamedios, the civil society organization from Ecuador which advocates for the right to freedom of expression and is a member of Red Latinoamericana en Defensa de la Libertad de Expresión (in English, Latin American network advocating for…