Tag: Grupo Clarín

Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 19:43 UTC
Major Buenos Aires newspaper attacked with Molotov cocktails

Hooded attackers launched Molotov cocktails late Monday at the building of the Buenos Aires leading daily Clarín, but no injuries or material damage were reported other than fuel stains and traces of a small fire.
Friday, September 20th 2019 - 10:30 UTC
Prosecution opens extortion case against Argentine President Macri

Argentine Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan was appointed Thursday to lead an investigation against President Mauricio Macri for allegedly extorting a media businessman to relinquish spectrum frequencies which the government was interested in passing on to a rival group.
Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 10:49 UTC
Reporters organization questions media ownership concentration in Argentina

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) international organization questioned the abrogation of Argentina’s media law decided by the administration of President Mauricio Macri, warning the new legislation that creates the Enacom agency “favors” concentration of media ownership in the country.
Friday, October 16th 2015 - 06:29 UTC
Argentine yacht salvaged in the Falklands, effectively had the purpose of showing the flag

The 'capture' (salvage) by a Falkland Islands Fisheries Patrol vessel of the Argentine flagged yacht La Sanmartiniana adrift in the South Atlantic had a great impact in the Buenos Aires media and immediate political controversy, basically accusing opposition newspapers of publishing dishonest 'pro-British' reports with the intent of jeopardizing the current presidential election.
Sunday, April 12th 2015 - 10:29 UTC
Controversy over Argentine ambassador accounts, dismissed by US bank

Argentine ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Nilda Garre denied having accounts neither in the CNB Bank nor in the Felton Bank, saying the US-based entity had written proof that there were no accounts under her name there.
Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 06:11 UTC
Maximo Kirchner rejects accusations; blames international media campaign

Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez has strongly denied as “false and ridiculous” news published in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's magazine Veja alleging he had secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands holding millions of dollar.
Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:49 UTC
Maximo Kirchner accused of having secret accounts in the US and Cayman Islands

Maximo Kirchner, son of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and former Defense and Security Minister Nilda Garre figure with secret bank accounts, stashed with millions of dollars, in the United States and in the Cayman Islands, according to reports in Buenos Aires daily Clarin and Brazil's Veja, the weekly magazine with the largest circulation in that country.
Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:34 UTC
Cristina's immunity when she steps down, becomes a political topic

Argentine Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich denied that a bill to choose the members of Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) through popular vote had a hidden agenda for granting immunity for President Cristina Fernandez after 2015, as was denounced by Buenos Aires Clarin newspaper.
Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 03:11 UTC
Argentine Supreme Court closes ranks in support of leading Judge Lorenzetti

The seven members of Argentina's Supreme Court came out in full support of the body's president Ricardo Lorenzetti who was accused of holding meetings with members of President Cristina Fernandez government and opposition lawmakers demanded he be impeached.
Tuesday, November 5th 2013 - 07:07 UTC
Clarin group presents plan to divide media assets in six different companies

The Argentine media group Clarin presented a plan Monday to divide its media assets into six different companies to comply with a controversial media antitrust law. The move was announced shortly after the head of the authority set up to enforce the law offered assurances that the group would be allowed to keep its most valuable TV and radio licenses.