Argentine intelligence services surveilled journalist Hugo Alconada Mon under Macri administration
June 18, 2020 2:26 PM EDT
Then-President Mauricio Macri is seen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 20, 2019. Recent revelations have exposed an espionage program conducted under his adminstration that targeted journalists. (Reuters/Agustin Marcarian)
Miami, June 18, 2020 – Argentine authorities should conduct a thorough investigation into the surveillance of journalists under the previous presidential administration, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On June 15, at the Federal Court of Lomas de Zamora, judge Federico Villena presented evidence showing that Argentina’s Federal Intelligence Agency had illegally surveilled Hugo Alconada Mon from March to November 2018, according to news reports and Alconada, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview. The judge also exposed the illegal surveillance of politicians, according to those reports.
Alconada, an investigative journalist for the daily La Nación, said the surveillance coincided with his coverage of the Brazilian Lava Jato corruption scandal. In 2017, Alconada had reported that the Brazilian Federal Police were investigating Gustavo Arribas, then the head of the Argentine Federal Intelligence Agency, over his potential involvement in the scandal.
“There was an effort to try to identify my reporting sources,” he told CPJ.
More:
https://cpj.org/2020/06/argentine-intelligence-services-surveilled-journalist-hugo-alconada-mon-under-macri-administration/
We were lucky enough to have mutiple articles from DU's sandensea during the catastrophic Macri administration, as it undertook incredible illegal, pervasive measures to manipulate every possible person Macri deemed a potential stumbling block as he attempted to bleed the country and its resources dry as quickly as possible, stripping the working class of all its protections, then imposing new crushing financial burdens never seen previously.
