Weekly Report - 13 December 2012 (WR-12-49)

It was not quite the party President Cristina Fernández had in mind. The rally she addressed in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on 9 December was ostensibly to mark the anniversary of Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983, but its real purpose was to celebrate her victory over Argentina’s dominant media group, Clarín. In the end it was a bit of a damp squib as Clarín was granted more time by the judiciary before being forced to comply with a 2009 media law under which it would have to offload its radio and television assets in excess of strict new limits. Fernández responded by transforming her speech on Argentina’s hard-won democracy into a fierce attack on the judiciary. The speech itself contravened the separation of powers upon which democracy is based.

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