At the doors of what until now was their job, dozens of people have gathered to protest against the closure of the Télam agency. They do it in the streets, supported by colleagues and unions, because Javier’s government Mileihas been armored with federal police and a huge fence access to this historic Argentine agency.

Carla Gaudensi, a Télam worker, assures that “this unprecedented situation in democracy of silence a media outlet and at dawn they are fenced, unable to work, they are not going to allow it.” “This agency has more than 78 standing and will continue standing,” he clarifies.

Overnight and through an early morning email, its 755 workers were informed not to go to work and their website stopped working. Its closure means ending thelargest news agency from all over Latin America andsecond in Spanish, behind EFE. Milei justifies that it is for money although he claims to be pure propaganda “we are going to close the Télam agency that has been used during the last decades as a Kirchnerist propaganda agency”.

Days later, Manuel Ardoni, government spokesman, disguised his boss’s words, stating that “has nothing to do with freedom of expression“, nor with freedom of the press, nor with any other issue that goes against democratic foundations.”

Ardoni has also been in charge of answering questions from journalists who, at a press conference, asked him if the method used to fire Télam workers It was not typical of a dictatorship. He has clearly denied it, defending the indefensible.