Argentina turns state information company into promoting company

BGood morning AiresThe federal government of Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday made official its resolution to rework the dissolved state information company Télam into an promoting and propaganda company that can stay below the chief department.

The measure was revealed within the Official Gazette and establishes that Télam, the company that was closed in March after 79 years of existence, shall be reworked into the State Promoting Company Single-Member Public Restricted Firm and can function below the orbit of the Chief of Workers.

The aim of this new company shall be to “function as an promoting and propaganda company, understanding the event, manufacturing, advertising and marketing and distribution of nationwide and/or worldwide promoting materials”, each inside Argentina and overseas.

Telam, which employs greater than 700 individuals, stopped working on March 4 when its doorways had been boarded up, its employees suspended and its web site taken down. The federal government mentioned on the time that the company had estimated losses of 20 billion pesos (about $23 million) this yr.

All through its existence, the media outlet, which was based in 1945 by Juan Domingo Perón, creator of a political motion that also survives and president of Argentina on three events, was within the sights of assorted navy and later democratic governments that wished to cut back or shut it.

5 months in the past, the federal government had ordered the intervention of the information company in step with the choice of Milei — an ultra-liberal economist who took workplace in December — to implement a drastic spending minimize that has materialized within the dismemberment of public organizations and the dismissal of 1000’s of employees.

The president then identified that the media outlet had been utilized in current many years “as a Kirchnerist propaganda company,” referring to the center-left present of Peronism that has ruled principally within the final 20 years and whose prime consultant is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president between 2007 and 2015 and vp between 2019 and 2023.

The choice was questioned by numerous political and social sectors, mentioning that it minimize off the supply of content material for a lot of media shops within the nation that had been unable to entry the information, images, audiovisual recordings and infographics that Télam offered each day.

Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni had already introduced on Saturday on his X account —previously Twitter— that the information company had “ceased to exist.”