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Weekly Report - 03 September 2009 (WR-09-35)
REGION: Freedom of expression or manipulative distortion?
“The media seeks to replace the function of
government and assume for itself the representation of the public interest to
promote private benefits, without being subject to controls or held to account
like politicians." If these words had been uttered by Venezuela's President Hugo
Chávez , they would have been held up in the international media as evidence of
his desire to suppress press freedom. But they were not. They were spoken by
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias and received minimal media coverage. They
serve to show that it is not just leftist radicals like Chávez , Ecuador's
President Rafael Correa and, this week, Argentina's President Cristina Fernández
who are seeking to reform the media.
- Unasur verdict and re-election referendum go Uribe's way
- REGION: Rethinking regional drugs policy
- BOLIVIA: Late addition to electoral race fuels controversy
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Supreme court dismisses case against Palocci
- BRAZIL: Oil laws come under fire
- CHILE: Bachelet names new indigenous czar
- TRACKING TRENDS
- REGION: Freedom of expression or manipulative distortion?
- GUATEMALA: Court delivers "historic" civil war conviction
- REGION: China boosts trade ties in isthmus
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Calderón admits that more needs to be done
- MEXICO: Oil worries mount
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Struggle ensues over legitimacy of Honduran elections
- Quotes of the week