Weekly Report - 16 January 2014 (WR-14-02)

When Peru’s President Ollanta Humala decided to criticise the media group El Comercio last week for amassing too much influence after its purchase of Epensa gave it a near 80% share of Peru’s newspaper market from about 50%, he was piggy backing on comments by Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel literature laureate and political commentator. If he hoped, however, that this would attenuate the ferocity of the attacks against him, he was mistaken. Humala was savaged for trying to curb press freedom, and for allegedly attempting to regulate and censor Peru’s media akin to the Argentine government’s moves against Grupo Clarín.

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