Macri said: "Argentina enjoys the greatest freedom of the press in its history" "The capital of the newspaper Mar del Plata

President Mauricio Macri said today that "Argentina enjoys the greatest freedom of the press in its history", after the Inter-American Press Association (SIP) stressed at its mid-year meeting that the country was going through "a more favorable scenario for the profession" than that of many other countries in the region.
In this regard, President Macri noted with satisfaction that the agency had distinguished Argentina for the third consecutive year for the total freedom of the press that prevails in the country ".

"Today in Argentina, freedom is absolute, it is so great that it has become transparent, but it must be remembered that what we are experiencing is the result of having abandoned forever the secret mechanisms used. by previous governments to subjugate freedom, "said Macri via his Twitter account.

In a series of publications of this social network, Macri defended the direction of the national government in the matter, using the declarations of Daniel Dessein, president of the newspaper La Gaceta and representative of Argentina before the SIP, according to whom in the country there is "increased transparency, constant appearances of officials in front of the press and elimination of the harbadment practices suffered by journalists and the media during the previous stages".

"We said that our goal was to represent a profound change that already existed in the hearts of the people of Argentina.This change is reflected in almost every area of ​​life and the respect for freedom of expression and the press is perhaps to be the most important for democracy, "said Macri.

"Never before," said the president, "less money has been spent on advertising than in this government." That is, it means that official advertising is not used as a means of domesticating the media. or send reporters as before. "

He also stressed that the government "we do not intervene and do not influence editorial decisions, we do not question the work of the media or press professionals, we do not disqualify, we do not Let's not accept that "journalists" are judged on the Plaza de Mayo as it happened only 9 years ago. "" We do not accept that the image of public persons we do not insult it, we do not come in like newspapers or break it, we do not destroy antennas, we do not create propaganda programs to attack those who think differently or use football to rent us or continue. "

"We do not change the schedules of football games to affect the ranking of TV shows, we do not buy media with intermediaries avoiding taxes, we do not block newspaper trucks. freedom of expression, "concluded President Macri.