Fundación LED has expressed great concern about the attitude of the Argentine State coercing Consumer Organizations. These events, which have increased recently, trigger self-censorship amidst organizations and are a serious impairment of freedom of expression and consumer rights. Concern about coercion by the Argentine State against Consumer Organizations Fundación LED (Libertad de Expresión + Democracia)…
There is growing concern about the use of coercive power by the State against dissident expressions. it all adds up—a survey on mass media which is being distributed at internal revenue service agencies (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos) and the statements made by several public officials, among them the President of Argentina, upon availing themselves of Government…
When he finished visiting an exhibition on the life of Eva Perón in the town of Villa General Belgrano, a 16 year old High School pupil wrote in the Visitors’ Book that the exhibition had made him «feel sick.» The organizers then got in touch with the School’s authorities saying that they were disgusted with…
Two situations which in principle did not seem connected have drawn our attention to the climate of growing intolerance experienced in several provinces of the country. A legislator from the Province of Jujuy was sanctioned by her peers when she left the House floor in protest after she was not able to make proper use…
On August 27 this year, the Office of the Undersecretary for Consumer Protection of Argentina suspended Asociación de Consumidores Libres (Association of Free Consumers) for expressing its opinions on the price indexes as it had been doing for the last 18 years. This decision was taken in view of Resolution 47/2012 (which amended Resolution 461/1999),…