Argentina - Journalists suffer new threats as atmosphere of impunity prevails

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked at the attacks and threats suffered by two journalists in Argentina in the past 10 days. In the central city of Sancti Spiritu, Hernán García (photo), manager of the radio station FM UNO, was threatened at gunpoint by the mayor, who told him he would kill him. A home-made bomb badly damaged the private car of Silvio Novelino, director of the monthly El Pepirí, in Bernardo de Irigoyen in the north-eastern province of Misiones. “These two cases are (...)

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