President of Argentina Slams Editorial Cartoon For “Quasi-Mafioso Message”

The International Freedom of Expression Exchange has issued an alert regarding a speech made by Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The speech decried a cartoon of the president published in the newspaper Clarin that same day as a "quasi-mafioso message." The cartoonist was Hermenegildo Sabat. IFEX had her remarks as:

"In a newspaper, they published a cartoon with a gag across the face, with a quasi-mafioso message," said the president, who then asked herself, "What do they want to tell me, what is it that I can't tell the people?"

One reason that IFEX notes the criticism is that the country has re-launched its "Observatory on Discrimination in the Media a goverment/academia group that a journalist group believes will have a watchdog capacity over that country's press, if not outright subjecting the press to pressure to change elements of coverage. The cartoonist is a member of that group, FOPEA, and made a statement criticizing the president ascribing motivations to his cartoon.
 
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