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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 02:20 UTC

Tag: news agency

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Argentina shuts down Telam news service

    Press guilds dubbed the government's decision an attack against freedom of expression

    Argentina's state-run news service Télam came to an end Monday when 700 of its workers received emails telling them they should not show up for work because they had been placed on leave while the outlet's website shows a sign reading it is “under reconstruction.” President Javier Milei had announced on March 1 that one of his spending cuts would involve closing what he dubbed “a nest of Kirchnerite propaganda.”

  • Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 16:42 UTC

    Venezuela: Journalists arrested and deported complied with accreditations

    The reporters of the EFE agency were a “reinforcement” team that was covering the Venezuelan crisis for a period of ten days

    The National Union of Workers of the Press (SNTP) of Venezuela reported that reporters from the Spanish international agency EFE who were detained by the National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) in Caracas will be deported despite fulfilling the necessary papers to carry out his journalistic work.