Tag: Grupo Clarín

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 00:31 UTC

  “Loyalty rewards loyalty” message from Moyano to Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s powerful organized labour leader Hugo Moyano has sent another strong message thanking workers for “being loyal to him” at the same time his teamsters were granted a 24% rise in wages.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2011 - 01:36 UTC

  Clarin blocked edition: fingers point to Moyano with CFK’s consent

  

  Under the excuse of a labour conflict there’s a clear intention to put pressure on the newspaper, said Daniel Santoro national news editor of Argentina’s main daily Clarin, which was impeded from circulating Sunday by 12 hour-pickets that respond to the head of Argentina’s organized labour, Hugo Moyano.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 16:31 UTC

  Moyano pickets block distribution of Argentina’s main dailies

  

  Argentina’s main daily and the Spanish language newspaper with largest circulation, Clarin from Buenos Aires appeared Monday with a blank front page to protest organized labour pickets that blocked Sunday’s edition distribution for almost twelve hours.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:42 UTC

  Argentine files complaint against the country’s two largest newspapers

  

  The Argentine government filed on Tuesday a formal complaint against the heads of the country's two biggest newspapers of complicity with a former military regime in crimes against humanity.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:44 UTC

  UK and US media blast the Kirchners for attempting “to lock-hold the press”

  

  British daily Financial Times ran an op-ed Tuesday morning blasting Argentina’s presidential couple for their attempt to “secure a lock-hold on Argentina’s press,” and accusing them of mirroring the “black arts” tactics of the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary party.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 06:58 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner sends bill declaring production of newsprint of “public interest”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sent the project that aims to declare of “public interest” the production and distribution of newsprint to the Lower House of Congress, where it is believed the opposition's A Group would vote against the bill; however, centre-left parties might join the pro-government initiative.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner confrontation with Clarin and La Nacion scares investors

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s growing confrontation with the country’s largest newspaper is exacerbating the biggest tumble in its dollar bonds in two months and prompting JPMorgan Chase & Co. to recommend investors cut holdings.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  US closely following Argentine debate on freedom of the press

  

  United States Department of State Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said President Barack Obama's administration is “closely” watching the debate on press freedom in Argentina.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 04:59 UTC

  Argentine government promises free public access to internet

  

  The Argentine government has said it is working to create areas of free public access to the internet across the country through wireless networks.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 04:47 UTC

  Kirchner couple actions plan to control Clarin and La Nacion newsprint mill

  

  Argentina’s two main newspapers, Clarin and La Nacion claim the government of President Cristina Kirchner has a plan to eliminate their stakes at the country’s largest newsprint mill.