Despite multiple rulings, Macri refuses to reopen AFSCA media monopoly watchdog office.

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Martín Sabbatella, the AFSCA media monopoly watchdog director ousted by presidential decree December 24, tried to resume his activities in his office today after two federal judges ruled that the "emergency" decrees signed by Argentine President Mauricio Macri that rescinded the 2009 Broadcast Media Law and ousted its director, were null and void. Sabbatella, however, was barred from doing so by a large Federal Police brigade on orders of President Macri.

“We will go to court to file the complaints. When they talked about institutional quality, it was a brutal lie; they don’t care about the quality of democracy when it comes to defending the interests of the corporative sectors that they represent,” Sabbatella told reporters outside the AFSCA building in downtown Buenos Aires. He affirmed he will return to courts to “report that once again the administration is violating the Law.”

On Monday, judges Iván Garbarino, from the Buenos Aires Civil and Commercial Court, and Martina Forns, of the Commercial and Administrative Court of San Martín (Buenos Aires Province), stipulated that Macri’s decrees should be declared null and void. This rulings were preceded by a similar one last week by Judge Luis Arias of the La Plata (Buenos Aires Province) administrative law district.

The overturned Macri decrees included dissolving the AFSCA media monopoly watchdog in favor of a new Communications Ministry, creating the ENACOM national communications regulator under presidential control, and amending key aspects of the Media Law that barred monopolies — the latter decree being a central demand by the Clarín Group, Argentina's largest media conglomerate and a key Macri backer.

The injunction filed before the courts in the country’s capital was brought forward by the ADDUC consumers association, while the other was filed by FM En Tránsito, a community radio station from Castelar, Buenos Aires Province.

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/206587/they-are-violating-the-law-once-again
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Macri's starting to look, walk, and quack like a dictator - and international advocacy groups for freedom of expression have noticed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11741601
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110846650



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[Judi Lynn]

1. Martín Sabbatella is definitely taking his life in his own hands!

Publicly bucking Macri so early in the game could get him stuffed into one of those convenient Police vehicles, and speeding on his way to the new torture center.

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Hope he finds a way to get his legitimately earned position, but it's sure unlikely.

Clarin getting its demands met to allow its monopoly? Payday for Clarin. Bet they haven't been this happy since the depths of the Dirty War. So many parties to attend with Videla back then. Probably so many gifts for the huge favors done daily by printing lies, and denying the truth to the very people paying for the government, and buying the papers.