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Copycat Chavistas: Kirchners Seek to Impose Censorship in Argentina
Heritage Foundation's The Foundry Blog
August 26, 2010

In the run-up to her (or perhaps husband and former President Nestor Kirchner's) expected bid for re-election in 2011, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is flexing her government's muscles to pressure the media for favorable coverage. Opposition leaders, however, call it an attempt to silence critics. Fernandez is sending draft legislation to Argentina's Congress mandating governmental regulation of "the production, sale and distribution of newsprint in the public interest."

For the full text of the article, visit http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/26/copycat-chavistas-kirchners-seek-to-impose-censorship-in-argentina/

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