Morales: Bolivian Media Was Paid to Back Neoliberalism

[Judi Lynn]

Morales: Bolivian Media Was Paid to Back Neoliberalism
Published 4 January 2016 (20 hours 19 minutes ago)

Morales blamed the media for the privatization and capitalization that took place in the country’s neoliberal era in an interview on the Direct Democracy show.


Sectors of the Bolivian media used to defend neoliberal economic models, privatization and capitalization in return for a payoff from a special fund, Bolivian President Evo Morales revealed Sunday.
Morales blamed the media for the privatization and capitalization that took place in the country’s neoliberal era in an interview on the “Direct Democracy” show on Bolivia TV.

“I was remembering how the media was a great defender, of course the owners were private, and according to information they were paid with funds reserved for those media outlets to defend that economic model. And they are responsible, some with security around the theme of privatization, around the theme of capitalization, and that Bolivia lost so much,” the president said.

According to the president, radio stations, supposedly dependent on the Catholic Church, would defend processes that handed over resources and institutions from the state to private ownership.

“I remember sometimes the Fides radio station was a great defender of the call to capitalization and I couldn’t understand how a media outlet that depends on, and I hope I’m not mistaken, responds to the Catholic Church, could be such a great defender of capitalization,” Morales added.

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Morales-Bolivian-Media-Was-Paid-to-Back-Neoliberalism-20160104-0001.html

[forest444]

1. A lot like the Carlos Pagni scandal, in which he was bribed to smear Argentine state oil firm YPF

That was in 2009. The far-right paper where he publishes his extremist and often anti-Semitic op-eds, La Nación, are the ones that inadvertently embarrassed Macri just a month ago with an op-ed by the very same guy.

Pagni's op-ed, you'll recall, openly called on Macri to end the ongoing trials for crimes against humanity against dictatorship-era officers (which have resulted in over 1,000 indictments and 600 convictions of murderers who until then had gotten accustomed to walking free and, in some cases, living large).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016137948